Scavatec Quotes & Sayings

He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard. — John Le Carre

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing. — Magic Johnson

He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation — Mario Puzo

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'. — Adrian Desmond

Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist. — Lynn Coady

I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest
not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody. — Adyashanti

Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don't have any money, and even though we'd like to think we'll have it someday, we know we don't now. — Nate Ragolia

Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy." — Lauren Collins

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. — Maurice Maeterlinck

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. — John Quincy Adams

After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money - both useful things in their way ... — Edith Wharton

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. — Francis Bacon