Vernette Skeete Quotes

#1. A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

Matt Chandler

#2. I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#3. with Christ, to know and to do are two things that run parallel.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

Georgia Jagger

#5. What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.

Ron Paul

#6. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Randy Pausch

#7. When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last years.

Rick Pitino

#8. My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Glen Hansard

#9. It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

#10. Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.

John O'Donohue

#11. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Ron Suskind

#12. Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#13. It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

Dejan Stojanovic

#14. I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

Colin Firth