Scruton Number Quotes & Sayings

The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct but are messy and inelegant or counterintuitive. But it's not something you can put into words - explaining why a formula is beautiful is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful. — Yoko Ogawa

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes. — Ismail Kadare

Sometimes it's hard when you want to be like someone but you don't know how. — Cassandra Clare

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too. — George Eads

I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you. — Adam Braun

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki

cry so strange that it frightened him. — Hans Christian Andersen

Delivering freight elsewhere for Pickup. Meeting a Pickup schedule may become questionable, which will assure the future casual — Malcolm Newbourne

My paintings are the result of countless small brushstrokes, each one shaded with a different blend of colors, each one with a single, deliberate purpose. Every moment, every day, we are all making something - whether it's science or art, a relationship or a destiny - building it choice by choice, moment by moment. Our decisions shape other people's worlds as well as our own. We are all the center of our own universe and all of use in someone else's orbit. It's a paradox, but sometimes paradoxes are where truth begins.
My father would point out that the Beatles told us all of this decades ago. They one sang that in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make. No, we can never be in complete control of our fates - we're all vulnerable to accidents, to cruelty, and to the random misfortune of life. But I try to think about how much of it is up to us. We decide what emotions serve as our building blocks, which feelings we'll use to shape our universe. — Claudia Gray

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home. — Nicolas Bouvier

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce. — Benjamin Disraeli

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life. — Thandie Newton

Everything existed at God's command. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature. — Gabrielle Zevin