Scarland Youtube Quotes & Sayings

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia. — Victor Pelevin

To be in the right is often an expensive business. — Phyllis Bottome

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. — Paul Krugman

Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest. — Rita Rudner

Are you kidding me?' Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga style on the floor. 'You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious. When you do neither, nobody knows what to do with you. So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race ... ' p.335 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. — Ally Condie

To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wiped her eyes. 'Cryin' helps sometimes,' she said. 'No shame in tears for them as you've loved. Sometimes I remember one of my husbands and shed a tear or two. The memories're there to be treasured, and it's no good to get morbid-like about it. — Terry Pratchett

Stop saying that word. It was inconceivable that anyone could follow us, but when we looked behind, there was the man in black. It was inconceivable that anyone could sail as fast as we could sail, and yet he gained on us. Now this too is inconceivable, but look - look - " and the Spaniard pointed down through the night. "See how he rises. — William Goldman

Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life. — Myron Kaufmann

You only fall in love once, The rest are just endless rebounds. — Dawn Lanuza

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. — John Drinkwater

There's a truly unbelievable story in the paper today, that a young brother and sister ... have been turned down for adoption by their own grandparents ... If that weren't enough, the siblings are now to be adopted by two complete strangers against the wishes of the grandparents ... And as if that weren't enough, the two strangers are a gay couple, who have been selected ahead of several heterosexual couples. — Andrea Leadsom