Scholium Quotes & Sayings

Autumn leaves snap and crackle
Seasons carry gravity,
Burdens, dreams,
Seeing and things. — Abigail George

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president. — Alma Powell

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. — John Quincy Adams

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy. — Thomas Szasz

To organize one's life around these motives, to dedicate oneself to the placation of power, is to live a childish and reactive life. Worse than that, to have such an organizing principle is to reinforce in oneself the psychology of a generalized moral duplicity. One will take a different attitude to the powerful and to the lowly, depending on the respective capacity of such persons to confer advantage. That is a reliable sign of being base. — Mark D. Johnston

Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful. — Sofia Vergara

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination. — Sage Steadman

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be. — Vinton Cerf

In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places. — Wayne Grady

Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause (Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium). — Baruch Spinoza

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher. — Alexander Whyte

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe