Sconces Battery Quotes & Sayings

God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle. — James Robison

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. — Robert A. Heinlein

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. — Terry Pratchett

Our responses are the fingerprint of our heart and the DNA of our conscience. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted. — Monty Hall

She squeezed her eyes closed. She heard the buggy stop, heard Colin's boots hit the ground, knew that he strode toward her side of the wagon. "Felicia, where do you think you're going?" "Away," she whispered. Strong hands closed around her waist, and suddenly she was airborne, lifted off the wagon seat and then set gently on the ground. Her eyes flew open. "You're not going anywhere, Miss Kristoffersen. Not until I've done this." His lips claimed hers in the kiss she'd longed for, even when she hadn't known it. The kiss was gentle, yet it sent her senses reeling. She felt turned upside down and wrong side out. His arms gathered her closer, and she felt their hearts beating as one. Oh, if they could only stay like this forever. — Robin Lee Hatcher

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience. — Oscar Wilde

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad. — Rosi Braidotti

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought ... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres. — Camille Paglia

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it. — John Dean

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. — Imagawa Sadayo

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity ... How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?" — Juan Gines De Sepulveda