Scannell Properties Quotes & Sayings

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars. — Mickey Rooney

They'll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out. — Marty Rubin

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think. — Michael Audain

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd. — Eric Thomas

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self. — Barbara Sher

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. — Mark Twain

I can be nice on occasion," Mike said. — Joanne Fluke

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. — William S. Burroughs

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs. — Lord Chesterfield

Ash looked at me. I saw pain in his eyes, and a little regret, but they shone with such emotion I felt breathless. 'I already have. — Julie Kagawa

Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner and Douglass could hold meetings to unite our people. But the white man wanted to teach black folks about the by and by in the sky. He wanted to take their minds off the things here, so maybe they wouldn't notice who was kicking them in the head. I admit, since joining my brother, I've changed some of my views. But you have to be smart about religion. You have to look closely at who's claiming it and how they're using it. — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator. — J.G. Ballard