Mr. Skimpole Quotes

#1. I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#2. What we see strongly guides what we do: To an extent, we enact what we imagine.

Trevor Paglen

#3. Think of it - all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

Deborah Eisenberg

#5. Why do you have to ruin everything?' he asked. 'Why do you have to name everything? Decide what's real and what's - why can't you just enjoy things? What's wrong with you?

Michael Montoure

#6. Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

Dan Byrd

#9. You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Scott Walker

#10. The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Richard Paul Evans

#11. President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Yousef Munayyer

#12. Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

John Of The Cross

#13. And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

Rachel Dratch

#14. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!

Charles Dickens

#16. I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.

Noah Levine