Pakon Scanner Quotes & Sayings

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. — John Steinbeck

I had never had an adequate notion of what Christians meant by God. I had simply taken it for granted that the God in Whom religious people believed, and to Whom they attributed the creation and government of all things, was a noisy and dramatic and passionate character, a vague, jealous, hidden being, the objectification of all their own desires and strivings and subjective ideals. — Thomas Merton

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist. — Mal Peet

There is a difference between a good society and a society that fakes goodness. — Kirtida Gautam

We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't. — Moira Young

Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life. — Jens Jensen

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality. — Joel Miller

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. — Paul Eldridge

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. — William Whewell

The servants of Jesus Christ are His representatives on this earth. — Sunday Adelaja

Back when people read things on paper, — Gillian Flynn

You must never draw, he'd said, until you know hoe many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die. — Stephen King

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume