Skrocki Scholarship Quotes

#1. I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

George Michael

#2. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

Toussaint Louverture

#3. Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Ian Fleming

#4. The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

Susan Stebbing

#5. You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too
even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Mitch Albom

#6. How this life speeds right by, the odometer forgetting how fast it sped. Grinding the foot and pressing the metal, not counting road side markers ahead

S.L. Northey

#7. etiquette rule that dictated a woman should put on all the jewelry she intends to wear, then remove one piece before leaving the house. Maybe two pieces, in his case.

Laura Lippman

#8. The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.

Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

#9. The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

#10. The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James

#11. I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles