Scopulae Quotes & Sayings

We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape. — Kay Hagan

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. — Karen O

I tried to be normal once ... worst two minutes of my life. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets. — William Beebe

Change yourself, you change the world? — James Sallis

Because I hate that word. Like being gay is something to be ashamed of. Like because Mer likes sports, it automatically makes her a lesbian. That insult doesn't even make sense. — Stephanie Perkins

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed. — Andre Leon Talley

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated. — Dalai Lama

24. Home Again Aunt — L. Frank Baum

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing. — Albert Camus

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned — Terry Goodkind

Frustration often steers you to the right path. — Joyce Rachelle

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom? — Maria Montessori

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now. — Gautama Buddha

The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her. — Pauline Reage