Scrounged Scythe Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't.
Oh no ... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, but weren't. — Lauren Willig

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together. — Mary Robinson

The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library. — John Fowles

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. — William Tyndale

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience. — Mike Tyson

Composers, skilled in theory, hear music differently. CAT profiles of their listening brains show more verbal hemisphere activity, as if they don't just let the associative sensations of timber and rhythm swell through them, but somehow eavesdrop on a point being argued on thought's original instruments. Can the effect be any less beautiful for being better articulated? — Richard Powers

I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade. — Joan Rivers

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and "take a stand" on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive issues of our times, I don't close my eyes. I do stand for something: I stand for love. For if Jesus came, not to condemn the world, but to redeem it, how can we who bear the Name respond any differently? Yes, what I believe about all these moral and social issues matters, without a doubt. But these beliefs mean nothing, if my first and consuming conviction is not love for those who are different and believe differently than me. We have a choice: We can choose to show how "right" we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time. — Ronnie McBrayer

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible. — Noam Chomsky

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. — John Hagel III

Mediocrity will be conquered when we become more of who we are and more like who we were. — Robert J. Braathe