M.M. Scott Quotes
I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.
The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.
Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.
I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.
Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.
I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.
In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.
Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally.
