Bertram Scudder Quotes & Sayings

I came to acting in a very circuitous way. — Victoria Pratt

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy. — Rafael Yglesias

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives. — Jo Coudert

Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all. — Sivananda

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live. — Tonya Hurley

The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding — Neetesh Dixit

I don't like the situation but I must endure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style. — Michael Dirda

The nature of things is dharma. — Mahavira

God's holiness without God's love would be unbearable. God's love without God's holiness would be unjust. God's wisdom found a way to bring them congruently together. It involved a cross — Thomas C. Oden

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention. — Mary Oliver

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul. — Jean Rhys

We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities. — Vandana Shiva

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
[Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere aut innumerabilis
Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam.] — Horace

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian. — Christopher Guest