Scorpioned Quotes & Sayings

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala. — Stephen Kinzer

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination — Ilyas Kassam

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The nation's forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had begun to set aside forest reserves to protect the trees. Then, while Aldo was in high school, one of the country's first forestry schools opened at Yale University. Aldo knew immediately what he wanted to do. If he could become a forester, he could get paid to work in the woods all day. How could a job get any better? — Marybeth Lorbiecki

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long. — Dick Armey

I think I'm finally starting to realize that love isn't about fixing things or people. It's about sticking around when things can't be fixed. — Cassia Leo

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything. — Agnes Repplier

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant