M.M. Scott Quotes

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

I don't want to talk about the vampire schedule. That's just gonna upset me.

I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

At my age, to still be able to do parts that are super physical, I'm lucky. I'm doing more fun stuff now than I ever have in my life. I'm just really fortunate.

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

Kiss me now, love me now.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.