Scrutamini Scripturas Quotes & Sayings

In love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! — Belle De Jour

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously. — Jermain Defoe

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world. — John Selden

And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop
and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate.
That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable — David Gemmell

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious. — John Coltrane

The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better. — Eric Staal

But that's the challenge
to change the system more than it changes you. — Michael Pollan

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not-knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares. HENRI J. M. NOUWEN — Melanie Shankle

The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them ... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you. — Aidan Chambers

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a tiny screw invisible to the naked eye. The feeling is erotic, magical, and I just want to go home and go to bed. — Chloe Thurlow

When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.' — Tyra Banks