Lessons Scout Learns Quotes & Sayings

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn't calculate my steps. I didn't have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are. — Alice Sebold

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment. — Anais Nin

On a level, they might be perfect for one another, but it's a theoretical perfection only, compromised by timing. Their bests passed one another on the way to here, and now exist epochs apart. — Billy O'Callaghan

He was stunning,incredible,unlike anything she had ever seen before.Around her,the crowd noise dissipated to a dull hum,but she barely noticed.Her gaze was slowly traveling the length of him,taking in his predatory stance and powerful muscle and tanned skin. — Laura Wright

Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)

Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."

(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,

It is better to remain an ignorant one.) — Jalaluddin Rumi

[ ... ] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies. — Simon Blackburn

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. — Joseph Conrad

As a child you are in some ways more acutely aware of what people feel about one another than you are when childhood has come to an end. — Anthony Powell

You might change the props
and the actors, the play of human history is always the same — Orson Scott Card

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. — Frank Luntz

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. — Johann Sebastian Bach

a woman would have to be a blind lesbian nun to not be affected by him. — Carol Maloney Scott