Scott Ambler Quotes & Sayings

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. — James Russell Lowell

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough. — Robert Thurman

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind. — William Eggleston

there's that study that says doctors do a worse job prognosticating for patients they're personally invested in. — Paul Kalanithi

If everyone had sex like that, the world would be a much better place," she sighed happily, and I laughed.
"I couldn't agree more. We should pray for them or something. — J.J. McAvoy

There are fifty American states, but they add up to one nation in a way the twenty-eight sovereign states of the European Union never can. Most of the EU states have a national identity far stronger, more defined, than any American state. It is easy to find a French person who is French first, European second, or one who pays little allegiance to the idea of Europe, but an American identifies with their Union in a way few Europeans do theirs. This is explained by the geography, and the history of the unification of the United States. — Tim Marshall

Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders. — Brian Selznick

But now I saw the real problem with chasing after a man. It wasn't a matter of being unseemly or socially unacceptable or not playing the game right. It was just this: if I chase him, I'll never really know if he cares enough to chase me. — Laura Jensen Walker

When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning of it, that I may find out by what degree of consanguinity They are related to me, and what authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, I am inclined to answer her with equal mystery, and without any more emphasis of the "they" - "It is true, they did not make them so recently, but they do now." Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to bang the coat on? — Henry David Thoreau

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson

countries allow organizations to claim some aspects of software development as R&D and thereby receive tax benefits for doing so. — Scott W. Ambler

But he says things so subtly, so smoothly, that it's hard to tell if it's purposeful or if he's just playing along with my jokes. — Kasie West

Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

Dawn is coming. I can feel it pressing against the darkness like a weight about to tear the night apart. — Laurell K. Hamilton