Scathed Profile Quotes & Sayings

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!' — Dorothea Dix

It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms. — Zac Efron

Yesterday was one of those days when nothing went right, and I wouldn't have noticed it if it had. — Carolyn Henderson

The solitude, bravery, and uncertain path of the modern-day single woman is something to be applauded as bold and courageous and unique, not lauded as sad or pathetic or weak. As — Mandy Hale

A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company. — Louise Bernikow

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. — Neil Cross

Holy Scriptures; the precious promise of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. — George Bernard Shaw

It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality - a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We can accept man as a fact, if we are content with an unexplained fact. — G.K. Chesterton

And I want out of this life on drugs. — Elizabeth Wurtzel