Scouring Pad Quotes & Sayings

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores. — Bun E. Carlos

And then, like the end of a kiss, he was himself. — Miles Cameron

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

As little children we readily accept the first story we're given at home, or school, or church. We're told stories of nationalism, religion, racism, politics, and family. All too often we accept them before we learn to weigh them against other views. And all too often we're inclined to accept these (or other) frozen views rather than see each situation for what it is. — Steve Hagen

Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way. — Alexander McCall Smith

Why is it that we don't worry about a compass until we're lost in a wilderness of our own making? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. — William Shakespeare

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better. — Barbra Pletcher

I now have of a life that stretches beyond the limits of measurable time. — David Malouf

The only intelligence investing is value investing ... to acquire more than one is paying for. — Charlie Munger

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ. — Coretta Scott King