Scamardella Staten Quotes & Sayings

It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail. — Matthew Cooper

When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair. — Dalai Lama

Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant. — Jimmy Van Heusen

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated. — Gary David Goldberg

The shepherds made haste, partly no doubt from human curiosity, in order to see this great thing that had been announced to them. But surely, too, they were driven by their joy on hearing that now, truly, the Saviour, the Messiah, the Lord had been born, the one so long awaited - and they would be the first to see him. How many Christians make haste today, where the things of God are concerned? Surely if anything merits haste - so the evangelist is discreetly telling us - then it is the things of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.' — Richard Chizmar

Demane: "Gods could only carry away Homo celestialis with them, you see, because the angels had already learned to make their bodies light. But most sapiens - even those of us with fully expressed theogenetica - haven't yet attained the psionic phylogeny necessary to sublimnify the organism."
"Do doubt," Comalo nodded mellowly. "No doubt. I'd always maybe thought it was something like that. — Kai Ashante Wilson

What fun is life without a bit of showing off? — Matt Lucas

Here's a practice for dealing with envy ... each time you find yourself envious of someone ... ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing in the other person that I want to find in myself?" ... If it's money, is it the freedom? The cance to play that money buys? A sense of security? Whatever it is-more play, a sense of security, free time-you can work on getting more of it in your life, no matter what the circumstances. — M.J. Ryan

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. — Louis L'Amour

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J.G. Holland

The intruder took a step forward, and Moody's voice asked, "Severus Snape?" Then the dust figure rose from the end of the hall and rushed him, raising its dead hand.
"It was not I who killed you, Albus," said a quiet voice.
The jinx broke: The dust-figure exploded again, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense gray cloud it left behind.
Harry pointed his wand into the middle of it.
"Don't move!"
He had forgotten the portrait of Mrs. Black: At the sound of his yell, the curtains hiding her flew open and she began to scream, "Mudbloods and filth dishonoring my house--"
Ron and Hermione came crashing down the stairs behind Harry, wants pointing, like his, at the unknown man now standing with his arms raised in the hall below.
"Hold your fire, it's me, Remus!"
"Oh, thank goodness," said Hermione weakly, pointing her wand at Mrs. Black instead; with a bang, the curtains swished shut again and silence fell. — J.K. Rowling

When he counted his change, he found only coins from the year he was born. — Lev Grossman

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry. — Alexander McCall Smith