Scots New Year Quotes & Sayings

I now understand when people say the world stands still. Everything stops, yet I am aware of the activity around us. — Julia Ibbotson

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there. — Neil Young

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. — Howard Schwartz

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share. — Victor Hugo

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth. — Norman Cousins

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil. — Tertullian

Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. — Herman Melville

I told the Kid I thought Wednesday was Latin for Satan, and that we probably shouldn't do it then because it might be bad luck. The Kid then proceeded to tell me what the word Wednesday actually means and where it came from (apparently it's Middle English for Wednes dei, the day of the English God Woden
how the hell he knows these things, I'll never know). He then said to stop being such a girl. — T.J. Klune

Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world. — Matthew Quick

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be. — Kim Young-ha