Skim Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. — Henry Ward Beecher
• At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own… — James Buchan
• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
• How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and… — Robert A. Heinlein
• We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers.… — Barack Obama
• You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to… — M. Scott Peck
• Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They… — Alexander Pope
• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure… — Mary Ritter Beard
• We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem,… — W. S. Gilbert
• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare
• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to… — Michael Kenna
• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
• If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• His hands skim my bare arms. “Just bounce a little when you walk,” he says, kissing my forehead, “and pretend you’re afraid of their guns”… — Veronica Roth
• The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein
• For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed… — John Ortberg

Who Wrote These Skim Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Skim Quotes as follows:

• 2 Skim Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Skim Quote by James Buchan
• 1 Skim Quote by George Meredith
• 1 Skim Quote by Barack Obama
• 1 Skim Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• 1 Skim Quote by M. Scott Peck
• 1 Skim Quote by Alexander Pope
• 1 Skim Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1 Skim Quote by Mary Ritter Beard
• 1 Skim Quote by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• 1 Skim Quote by W. S. Gilbert
• 1 Skim Quote by Augustus William Hare
• 1 Skim Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• 1 Skim Quote by Michael Kenna
• 1 Skim Quote by Williston Fish
• 1 Skim Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 1 Skim Quote by Veronica Roth
• 1 Skim Quote by John Ortberg
• 1 Skim Quote by Henry Ward Beecher