Scoutnet Quotes & Sayings

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. — J.G. Holland

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression. — Arthur Melvin Okun

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. — Melinda Harmon

The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the realities of the past and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution. — Graham Greene

I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on. — Jami Gertz

Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others. — Dacha Avelin

I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach. — Steven Millhauser

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. — Karl Shapiro

Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals. — Norman Vincent Peale

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions. — Kieran Hebden