A. O. Scott Quotes
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."
