Scupper Quotes & Sayings

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: only one who practices grace can receive grace. — John Howard Yoder

I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. — Albert Einstein

we don't learn to love our lives and then check a box when it's done. We learn to love our lives every day, one day at a time, forever. — Melanie Dale

Everyone is either happy or dead. — Brandon Sanderson

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity. — Frederick The Great

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world. — Henry Cloud

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise. — The Beatles

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power ... — Seth

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun. — Saul Bellow

I felt something inside me rush up from tailbone to fingertips and explode in a fierce, joyful tide: that berserk rage that had nowhere to go until now. — Heather Gladney

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work. — Geraldine Brooks

That part of us that is meant to lead us in life, from which we are meant to lead, and from which we are meant to have guidance. The very thing that compels us to breathe, compels us to find hope in the midst of darkness - that part of us gets buried and overshadowed by fear. — Rod Stryker

David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he'd done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange. — David Toop