Scacciadiavoli Quotes & Sayings

Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you. — Richard Foth

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character. — Stephen R. Covey

One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter. — Louis C.K.

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but rather as a system of hypotheses; that is to say, as a system of guesses or anticipations which in principle cannot be justified, but with which we work as long as they stand up to tests, and of which we are never justified in saying that we know they are 'true' or 'more or less certain' or even 'probable.' — Karl Popper

Silence is often underestimated — Timur Vermes

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Listen closely ... this is the most important thing you need to know while you're here.
Do not eat the haddock. They've been overcooking it terribly. — Veronica Rossi

I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old and pagan creeds. — Geraldine Brooks

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What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet? — Vivian Vande Velde

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to. — Nicole Mones

The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine! — Frederick Franck

In countries where income from labor is most equally distributed, such as the Scandinavian countries between 1970 and 1990, the top 10 percent of earners receive about 20 percent of total wages and the bottom 50 percent about 35 percent. — Thomas Piketty

and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." (Colonel Brandon) — Jane Austen

He never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by his genius for persuading himself that any disagreeable necessity forced upon him by his own folly, or his son's overriding will, was the outcome of his own choice and wise decision. — Georgette Heyer