Scout Character Description Quotes & Sayings

If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks. — Holly Black

I hate painting. — Howard Hodgkin

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry. — Robert H. Schuller

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. — Paul Theroux

Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn't be able to put it into words, except to say she felt removed from the world. Or just at its edge. At the edge of the wild and beautiful world. She felt small, too. But part of something large. She was happy. — Kevin Henkes

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. — Max Beerbohm

The term faith-based is nothing more than an attempt to slip religion past you when you're not thinking; which is the way religion is always slipped past you. It deprives you of choice; choice being another word the political-speech manipulators find extremely useful. — George Carlin

Maybe it's hungry," she suggested, her voice low but definitely goading now. "Do you keep kitty kibble around?" Silence — Lora Leigh

Jesus. He sings another song and I'm straddling the speaker, — Vi Keeland

What was love, anyway, but a mutated form of lust? — Suzanne Brockmann