Middlemas Tartan Quotes & Sayings

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,
these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. — Catharine Sedgwick

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. — Robert Kiyosaki

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man. — Max Lerner

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. — Malcolm Forbes

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others. — Patrick Rothfuss

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am. — David Otunga

Many conflict-resolution professionals stress the value of curiosity, accompanied by active listening. Many conflicts can be avoided or de-escalated if the parties involved are willing to set aside their prejudgments - and the intense feelings connected to them - and ask a question. And then be curious about the actual answer. Not just any question, though. The question should be genuine and open-ended, a serious request for more information about another person's feelings, intentions or motivations. It should not be a choice between predefined alternatives, or an accusation followed by a demand for a response. It should be, as much as possible, unburdened from what you think will be the answer. That means being curious about what it really is. — Eve Rickert

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show. — Nick Swardson

If all the lifeboats were on the upper deck, then mostly first-class passengers survived? — Kate Alcott

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them. — Philipp Meyer

I took my sight and mobility for granted. — Sue Townsend

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe. — Jan Smuts

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives. — Brian Moore