Scanescape Quotes & Sayings

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word ... Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My opinion means nothing. It happens every day. The most unlikely people commit the most unlikely crimes. Nice old ladies poison whole families. Clean-cut kids commit multiple holdups and shootings. Bank managers with spotless records going back twenty years are found out to be long-term embezzlers. And successful and popular and supposedly happy novelists get drunk and put their wives in the hospital. We know damn little about what makes even our best friends tick. — Raymond Chandler

The city has a face, the country a soul. — Jacques De Lacretelle

With apologies to Austin Ruse and the National Review, it's passages like this, not any endorsement of the drug-fueled, last-minute allnighter, that explain why Hunter Thompson will always be celebrated by young people. It had nothing to do with drugs, the F word, or being cool, and everything to do with the fact that Thompson never lost his sense of appropriate outrage, never fell into the trap of accepting that moral compromise was somehow a sign of growth and adulthood. Both — Hunter S. Thompson

If people want change, then they will find a way to get that change. So, whatever technology they may or may not have used was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for getting to the outcome that they got to, but having people who wanted change was. — Mark Zuckerberg

O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain, - never suffer anything, - not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives, - it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. — Albert Einstein

I'm very lucky about my family, because they're just a really solid family. I owe everything to them. — Fergie

A long time ago I'd given up on religion, thinking it wasn't for me when so many were bigoted, narrow-minded, and cruel. — V.C. Andrews

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. — Lisa Unger

Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick. — John Donne

I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food. — Eliza Crewe

Someone told me "stop telling everybody that the United States government is Terrorist and this country has been made by blood over millions of dead-bodies." I was thinking: "wasn't for the same reason I have been kicked out from Iran? — Kambiz Shabankareh

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect. — Stacey D'Erasmo