Sskindex Quotes & Sayings

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where. — George W. Bush

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor. — Haruki Murakami

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep.
Bats! — D.H. Lawrence

Complaining is what we do when we are really not praying. — Gerald Brooks

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Charles H. Brower

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. — Diane Cilento

She had seen them in turmoil all round her
love, hatred, vengeance, treachery
she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly strife she had emerged pure, happy in the arms of the man whom her wondrous adventures as much as his brilliant personality had taught her to love. — Emmuska Orczy

Deep breath ... I am peaceful, I am strong. — Jewel E. Ann

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. — Marcus Aurelius

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful. — Arianna Huffington

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. — Mitch Kapor

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. — Robert Kuttner