Deloyd Scott Quotes & Sayings

Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. — Lydia M. Child

I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation. — Ilchi Lee

Forgiveness is the language of heaven. — Rebecca Nichols Alonzo

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. — H.L. Mencken

Everything I do now
Was once an unremembered dream.
-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis — Don Murphy

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman. — Victor Hugo

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect. — Chuck Klosterman

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist. — Jess Walter

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. — Rabindranath Tagore

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself. — C.S. Lewis

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences. — Gwendolyn Heasley