Scrooge Isolation Quotes & Sayings

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads. — Abraham Verghese

The flat is small, with only a sliver of ocean view from the bedroom window, but I pay for it myself - not from the family trust fund.

There's satisfaction in earning one's own money. Self-sufficiency - like knowing how to rub sticks together to start a fire. A survival skill. I could make it in the wilderness if I had to.

Well . . . if the wilderness were Castlebrook, anyway. — Emma Chase

But most of all, she respects Linda for having renounced the product mentality. For having said, 'Enough is enough.' Or at least that's how Linda explained it:

'One day I just said enough is enough to the product mentality, you know? It's not that I'm giving up playing, I just don't need to package it. I devote myself to the music now, not the orchestra. I'm all about the process now. — Laia Jufresa

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do. — Julia Glass

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree. — Shook

God has already been in your tomorrow, and is working on your today. — Virginia Martin

Don't seek God elsewhere. Seek God now, right here, in the routine things that have to be done. Find God in the ordinary circumstances of your life. — Benet Tvedten

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone. — Dada Bhagwan

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on. — Robert Herjavec

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. — Mark Twain

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. — Andrew Mason

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. — Herman Melville