Scrapegoat Quotes & Sayings

For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue. — Augustus Saint-Gaudens

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. — Michael Scheuer

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company. — Kevin Plank

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. — James Q. Wilson

If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away. — Courtney Milan

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. — Thomas Moore

Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters. — Ted Cruz

A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat. — David Mitchell

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre. — Harry Shearer

It's probably a miracle of existence." "Like pickles," said the Bursar, happily. Even the Fresh Starters went blank. — Terry Pratchett

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. — Thomas Starr King

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people. — Jay Inslee

When we spend time with other believers, we are spending time with those who say: This is true and: This is wonderful to that declaration. We can see faith, and the obedience that flows from it, all around us. We can see others using their gifts for others, and we can use ours for them. That is what encourages and strengthens us. — Timothy Keller

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic. — Janice Dickinson