Skriduklaustur Quotes & Sayings

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. — Socrates

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you. — Rob Payne

The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ - the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death. — John Piper

The only person I wanted was Susannah. She was the only one. — Jenny Han

There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody to whisper to, during the warm beautiful dream-taut moments between hanging the empty stocking at the end of the bed, and dropping into the cosy oblivion that would flower into the marvel of Christmas morning. — Susan Cooper

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves. — Rihanna

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,' — Ian McKellen

We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters. — Tabatha Coffey

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty. — Alfred North Whitehead

When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without. — Edith Hamilton

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden. — Ernest Hemingway,

Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success. — Sinclair Lewis

Jesus lived this joy of the Father's house to the full. — Henri J.M. Nouwen