Alvyn Schopp Quotes & Sayings

Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. — Sarah Addison Allen

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. — Samuel Johnson

The dark organ music filled the Department of Post-Mortem Communications. Moist assumed it was all part of the ambience, although the mood would have been more precisely obtained if the tune it was playing did not appear to be Cantate and Fugue for someone Who Has Trouble with the Pedals. — Terry Pratchett

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul. — Marcus Aurelius

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us. — Croft M. Pentz

The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood. — Steven Johnson

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are. — Neale Donald Walsch

I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others. — Kathryn Stockett

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. — Adam Smith

... the loneliness ... the "inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at ... — Jack Kerouac

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. — Elmer Rice

Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe. — Peter F. Hamilton

The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men. — H.S. Jarrett

Valkyrie had never noticed this before, but walking was really, incredibly boring. She'd watched those Lord of the Rings films where they all went walking up and down mountains and it seemed so adventurous and purposeful, and they didn't look too tired and no one really complained and that Aragorn guy looked really sexy with his stubble and his long hair and what had she just been thinking about? Beards? Lord of the Rings? Walking, that was it. Walking and boredom. God, she was bored. "I'm bored," she said. "We know," said Skulduggery. "This looked a lot more fun on Lord of the Rings." "So you've said. — Derek Landy

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. — Viktor E. Frankl