Scriptum Gallery Quotes & Sayings

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe. — W. Somerset Maugham

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say? — Karl Barth

A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults. — Marcus Aurelius

You could cut ... all that out."
"You mean the men. Perhaps I could. I'm quite sure I could. But you see, Joe, I don't want to. What you call unnatural is the very essence of my nature. — Mel Bossa

-I taught you Hindi and everything
That's basically the same as getting engaged for missionaries

-And I really appreciate that
It will be terribly useful in my career as an English governess

-See?
That
There.
that is exactly the kind of tone I mean
One round of cholera in the tropics would sear that sarcasm right out of you

-guess I really missed out

-Guess so — Mallory Ortberg

Z by grace you have been saved a through faith. And this is b not your own doing; c it is the gift of God, 9 d not a result of works, e so that no one may boast. 10. For f we are his workmanship, g created in Christ Jesus h for good works, i which God prepared beforehand, j that we should walk in them. — Anonymous

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace. — John Owen

Brother," Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart. — Rick Riordan

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose. — Jonathan Ames

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat. — Nicholson Baker

Don't touch me," I clarified.
"Why not?"
Because I want it and I don't deserve it. — Shay Savage

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive. — Shirley Manson

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

At the end of the day we are not selling, we are serving. — Dave Ramsey