Scholastica Website Quotes & Sayings

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences. — Giles Foden

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. — Melissa McCarthy

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. — Ingrid Bergman

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other. — Cory Booker

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard

Playing games with peoples heart and emotions will leave you looking CRAZY in the end.
The moment you realize I MATTER will be the same moment I realize you NO LONGER DO! — L. Michelle

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. — John Maynard Keynes

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill

He finds me charming and so long as I don't think about it, it's ok, but I worry, what if I forget to do it or can't be charming or try, one day, just a bit too hard so that it is altogether not charming but something else.
I couldn't ask for anything more or for more generosity or, and this is perhaps the most important, exquisite tact. — Martha Ronk

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit. — Rose Kennedy

According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. — Mark Dever

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack. — Shania Twain

Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. — Lady Hester Stanhope

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. — Bertolt Brecht

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. — Warren Buffett