Scrutton Lj Quotes & Sayings

If the family goes, so goes our civilization. — Ronald Reagan

Right wins only when we dare and act. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

It's very odd ... that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate
all those values shrink abominably. — William Dean Howells

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy?
I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly? — Chris Colfer

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating. — Andrew Stanton

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened. — Aleksandar Hemon

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven — John Irving

At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this owing to a crime so outlandish, so totally different from the true ones of mating and theft of the negroes, outraged him with its insolence and perversity. In the conflict of these feelings Erasmus was swept by doubt and loneliness. His whole being seemed under threat of dissolution. What became of law, of legitimacy, of established order, if a man could assume such attitudes of private morality, decide for himself where his fault lay? It turned everything upside down. He could think of nothing more damnable. And yet ... He remembered suddenly the second, rarer smile his cousin had, the one that came slowly, transforming his face. Briefly, unwillingly, Erasmus glimpsed the possibility of freedom. — Barry Unsworth

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything ... It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared — Jeanette Winterson

Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more. — Marty Rubin

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus. — Burton Malkiel

Change is the one thing we can be sure of. — Naomi Judd

Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature — Epictetus