Scorchos Quotes & Sayings

So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new. — Trip Hawkins

Keep a man on a rope that's short enough to trip him without choking him. — Jenna Alatari

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. — P. J. O'Rourke

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing. — Paolo Bacigalupi

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. — Robert McNamara

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. If this sounds paradoxical, remember Rilke's admonition: love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which the self may flourish. As a child, I always felt uneasy and a little constrained around people, my family in particular. Solitude was bliss, but not easily obtained. Being always felt stressful- wherever I was there was something to do, someone to please, a duty to be completed, a role inadequately fulfilled: something amiss. Becoming, on the other hand, was relief. I was never so happy as when I was going somewhere on my own, and the longer it took to get there, the better. Walking was pleasurable, cycling enjoyable, bus journeys fun. But the train was very heaven. — Tony Judt

Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that the soul dies with the body. Go then to death after having savored life. We are animals among animals, all children of matter, save that we are the more disarmed. But since, unlike animals, we know we must die, let us prepare for that moment by enjoying the life that has been given us by chance and for chance. — Umberto Eco

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. — William Shakespeare

A classical concept in Hinduism has been that a true proposition has to be consistent with sruti, yukti (reason/logic) and anubhava. — Rajiv Malhotra

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique. — Roger Federer

Lots of times growing up, I'd just try to do something myself because I believed that being a boy, and being Indian, I should just know how to do things. -Will Bird, Through Black Spruce — Joseph Boyden

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on. — Tabitha Suzuma

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul