Leopoldo Scope Quotes & Sayings

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything. — William Monahan

Most children seem eager, even desperate, to please those in authority, reluctant to rock the boat even when the boat clearly needs rocking. In a way, an occasional roll-your-eyes story of excess in the other direction marks the exception that proves the rule. And the rule is a silent epidemic of obedience. For every kid who is slapped with the label "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," hundreds suffer from what one educator has mischievously called Compliance Acquiescent Disorder. The symptoms of CAD, he explained, include the following: "defers to authority," "actively obeys rules," "fails to argue back," "knuckles under instead of mobilizing others in support," and "stays restrained when outrage is warranted. — Alfie Kohn

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it. — Madison Smartt Bell

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes. — George Herbert

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny

Life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate. — Nelson Mandela

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result. — Angela Merkel

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security. — Zell Miller

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else. — Marina And The Diamonds

Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt. — Charles M. Schulz

the Precautionary Principle, a favorite tool of environmentalists to bypass the need for facts as the basis of decision-making. — Tim Ball

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through. — Walter Mosley

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event. — Mike Huckabee

Relationship means you give all of your heart. — John De Ruiter