Scories Extended Quotes & Sayings

My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents. — Bruce Forsyth

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence. — B.F. Skinner

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor

Know this: If you are afraid of starting over, it means you have not yet begun. — Tehya Sky

Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency. — Carly Fiorina

Ah. Medieval-style ransom."
Toot looked confused. "He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there."
There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back - poorly. "Hey, peanut gallery," I said. "This isn't as easy as I'm making it look."
"You're doing fine," Karrin said, her eyes twinkling.
I sighed.
"Come on, Toot," I said, and walked over to Hook. — Jim Butcher

The short and obscene sentence of Poseidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the cord touched by the finger accounts for the infinite miracle of sounds. Such a dictum is less an insult to pleasure than to the flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that red-tinged cloud whose lightning is the soul. — Marguerite Yourcenar

That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly. — Greg Garcia

Never quit. Never give up. — Gabby Douglas

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented. — Laini Taylor

Lord God of heaven and earth, I beg You to give me the confidence of Joshua. Instill in me Your purpose. Do not let me weaken. You are God and there is no other! "Prepare — Francine Rivers