Skarbek University Quotes

#1. As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Seneca The Younger

#2. Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

Robin Sharma

#3. You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.

Christopher Isherwood

#4. the famed French theorist Ernest Renan, who years ago defined the nation as "a group of people united in a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors.

Reza Aslan

#5. It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

Andy Rooney

#6. Will you oblige me then?' His voice was low and smooth, nearly whispered ...
Everything froze for a moment. Even the flickering lamps seemed to pause, flames surging upward and waiting ...
'No.

Anne Mallory

#7. I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

Renee O'Connor

#9. I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

David Rabe

#10. I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.

Bindi Irwin

#11. No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Fran Lebowitz

#12. What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Jean-Luc Godard

#14. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.

Anne Rice