Scratchpad Wiki Quotes & Sayings

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward. — Julius Streicher

It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before. — Frederick Lenz

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it. — William Jennings Bryan

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.' — James Cromwell

If you can become anything, then you aren't anything. Right? Like there's some fundamental way in which the you of you doesn't exist anymore. — Doug Dorst

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon! — Adam Young

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. — H.G.Wells

I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are. — George MacDonald

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. — Uncle Remus

My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me. — Joey Badass

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was. — Meghan O'Rourke

Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies. — David Mitchell