Famous Scottish Gaelic Quotes & Sayings

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned W. B. Yeats 'The Second Coming — Rennie Airth

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. — Frank James

One dress isn't worth your grisly death. — Richelle Mead

It gives a thrill to life," he explained to me, "when life is carried in one's hand. Man is a natural gambler, and life is the biggest stake he can lay. The greater the odds, the greater the thrill. Why should I deny myself the joy of exciting Leach's soul to fever-pitch? For that matter, I do him a kindness. The greatness of sensation is mutual. He is living more royally than any man for'ard, though he does not know it. For he has what they have not - purpose, something to do and be done, an all-absorbing end to strive to attain, the desire to kill me, the hope that he may kill me. Really, Hump, he is living deep and high. I doubt that he has ever lived so swiftly and keenly before, and I honestly envy him, sometimes, when I see him raging at the summit of passion and sensibility. — Jack London

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have. — Jean Chatzky

All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment. — Louis MacNeice

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together. — Tatiana Maslany

What's worse is the louder I am, the less they hear. — Jamie McGuire

You possess other people's ... bodies."
He accepted that statement with a nod.
"Do you want to possess my body?"
"I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them. — Becca Fitzpatrick

That's crazy," I say
"In case you hadn't noticed, the whole world has gone crazy.
It's time to adapt or die."
"By throwing crazy at crazy? — Susan Ee