Scammell Pioneer Quotes & Sayings

Swing, though, started in the wrong place. He didn't look around, and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought: This is how the people ought to be, how do we change them?' And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper, because Swing's patient, pedantic way of operating had turned policing on its head. — Terry Pratchett

The excessively but not necessarily lycanthropically hirsute — David Foster Wallace

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. — Brian Tracy

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. — James Baldwin

Anybody who wants to go into any business, I always say that you have to make a commitment to yourself to make it a part of your nature like the air you breathe. I don't mean that lightly. It's hard. You have to do the work, and a lot of it is going to be during your own personal downtime. And you have to be interested in it. You can never study enough, and you can never learn enough. — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all. — Rebecca Goldstein

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. — Karin Slaughter

if someone wants to find an excuse to not believe that Jesus is the Christ, they will find one, whether it is a poor description of a fig tree cursed and withered, or whether it is simply the tradition of their fathers. Any one who thinks about it with a clear mind will realize that the memories of men fade with time, and that what is important is not the day this happened, but rather that it took place at all - that Jesus was able, — David A. Todd