Scump Net Quotes & Sayings

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. — Umberto Eco

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing. — Bill Murray

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. — Heinrich Heine

Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be. — MaryAnn Koopmann

Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends. — John Irving

I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy. — Bob Newhart

Tomorrow contains more joy than any yesterday you recall. — Mike Murdock

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. — John Suckling

"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father. — Swami Vivekananda

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. — Max Lucado

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of. — Elihu Palmer

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. — James M. Barrie

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph. — Thomas Carlyle

In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker. — Daniel Quinn