Scossia Quotes & Sayings

Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen. — Robert Muldoon

for your 'transactions,' as you call them, is derived from the — Andrew Gross

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me. — Maxwell Caulfield

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?) — Lauren F. Winner

Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever! — Justin Bieber

What was most surprising, she was giving him the hardest thing to do first, but by failure at the great one he was learning the easier tasks with infallible power and skill. How different that is from our human way of training people, with the easiest always first. In nature animals cannot afford such long drawn-out step-by-step training. Animal children cannot be segregated in the schoolroom from the sharp experiences of life. They have to be educated in the heart of life itself. The easy and the difficult befall them without any sequence. It is a pity that in civilisation man has made the business of education so sequestered and slow. — Dhan Gopal Mukerji

In a moment of doubt about the socialist record Eric Hobsbawm once wrote: 'If the left have to think more seriously about the new society, that does not make it any the less desirable or necessary or the case against the present one any less compelling.'1 There, in a nutshell, is the sum of the New Left's commitment. We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable. Our concern is with the 'compelling' case against the present, which leads us to destroy what we lack the knowledge to replace. — Roger Scruton