Ryder Scanlon Quotes & Sayings

If dirty words frighten you...I really don't know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty. — James Baldwin

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. — Jonathan Wallace

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps. — Steve Berry

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world. — Sheri Dew

For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to punish. I almost loved her for her bewilderment. I almost touched her. — Wally Lamb

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind. — Harry Chapin

Sometimes you should be fake... to be honest is the thing which used against you... too much of you could kill ya. — Deyth Banger

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured. — Jane Austen

Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it? — James Maxton