Scudamore Email Quotes & Sayings

A letter does not blush. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. — Gregory Maguire

I've read that no loss compares to the loss of a twin, that survivors describe themselves as feeling less like singles and more like the crippled remainder of something once whole. Even when the loss occurs in utero, some survivors respond with a lifelong sense of their own incompleteness. Identical twins suffer the most, followed by fraternals. — Karen Joy Fowler

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. — John Muir

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13) — Rollo May

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize. — Edwidge Danticat

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. — Henry David Thoreau

Men and women whose outlook on life is conditioned by the Dow are shrewder on the street than are the disciples on their spiritual journey. — Brennan Manning

Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? — Walter Schloss

Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God. — Rich Mullins

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert

The stars will never align — Timothy Ferriss

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. — Hilda Solis