S Quotes
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“Skaters are very much like peacocks.”
“Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.”
Source: Muse of Nightmares
“Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.”
“Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.”
“Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.”
“Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.”
“Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.”
“Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.”
“Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.”
“Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.”
“Skating is in my heart, not my head”
“Skating is now retro and hip.”
“Skating is what got me into punk rock.”
“Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.”
“Skating presented a strange debacle. I disliked the femininity of it all yet was attracted to it nonetheless. I always tried not to stare too much, but-”
“Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.”
“Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.”
“Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.”
“Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.”
“Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul”
Source: The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories
“Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets.”
“Skeeter stands and tries to comprehend this man. “Trouble with you," he sees, “you still cluttered up with common sense. Common sense is bullshit, man. It gets you through the days all right, but it leaves you alone at night. It keeps you from knowing.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“Skeletal Remains Found
Deep in the jungles of America, I find skeletal remains of bodies strewn about some bowed in the pretense of what was and others with lifted arms as if department store mannequins posed to look lifelike drawing in others towards this lifeless worship called the church no breath of the spirit can be found for skeletal prayer has left behind bodies decomposing among all the skeletal remains of a godless church”
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“skeletons in the closet can be found everywhere. They may seem shocking initially, but they will be a colorful addition to any welcomed genealogist.
- Jacquelyn Nicholson, Genealogy Made Easy, 2nd Edition”
“Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.”
“Skenazy sees [cognitive distortion] discounting positives when parents overmonitor. "Any upside to free, unsupervised time (joy, independence, problem-solving, resilience) is seen as trivial, compared to the infinite harm the child could suffer without you there"...”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)”
“Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.”
Source: Mere Anarchy
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions
“Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.”
Source: Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)
“Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.”
Source: The Opium of the Intellectuals
“Skepticism does not disqualify you from being a natural scientist; instead, it is the praiseworthy habit of someone who does not submit to dogmas, even if they are currently supposed to be in fashion.”
Source: The Disappearance of Butterflies
“Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.”
“Skepticism doesn't help you hear.”
“Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”
“Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word
“Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.”
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
“Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.”
Source: By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses
“Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.”
Source: Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm
“Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.”
“Skepticism is history's bedfellow.”
“Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.”
“Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.”
“Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.”