Scotian Quotes & Sayings

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws — Lucinda Riley

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In South Carolina, I had been an African. In Nova Scotia, I had become known as a Loyalist, or a Negro, or both. And now, finally back in Africa, I was seen as a Nova Scotian, and in some respects thought of myself that way too. — Lawrence Hill

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours. — Eugene V. Debs

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. — Robert H. Schuller

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. — Edward Stanley

I think I'd rather be liked than loved.
It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like.
So, I hope you like me. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There are no struggles greater than those we place before ourselves. — E. Annette Blake

There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh! — Neetu Sugandh

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong

Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you. — Lysa TerKeurst

Why use a spell, where mummer's tricks will serve? — George R R Martin

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust. — Steve James

... still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life ... — Donna Tartt

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ. — John Calvin

Jack smiled. There're two kinds of environmentalists, Ella. The kind who hugs trees and thinks a single-cell amoeba is as important as a Nova Scotian elk ... and then there's my kind, which thinks of regulated hunting as part of responsible wildlife management. And since I like to be out in nature as much as possible, I'm against pollution, overfishing, global warming, deforestation, or anything else that messes with my stomping grounds. — Lisa Kleypas