Scuturb Quotes & Sayings

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.
Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.
If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all. — C.S. Lewis

Happiness is when you are not striving for it! — Anuranjita Kumar

Listening to the clack clack of the pal fronds form a percussive background to the oboe throb of the sea, he dozed off. An hour later, he woke with a start and, standing up, dusted off the seat of his trousers. White sand, in fine glittering silicon chips, clung to him, catching the sun, turning him into a patchwork fabric of diamonds and ebony. — Chris Abani

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class. — Charles Murray

If souls could be mated with wishes, ours would be inextricably entwined. — Sylvia Day

Find me, my thief. — Jessica Khoury

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. — Samuel Johnson

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end! — Elisabeth Of Wied

The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home. — George MacDonald

The discovery of geometry had intoxicated them, and its a priori deductive method appeared capable of universal application. They would prove, for instance, that all reality is one, that there is no such thing as change, that the world of sense is a world of mere illusion; and the strangeness of their results gave them no qualms because they believed in the correctness of their reasoning. — Bertrand Russell

Life is made for the living. — J.J.V. The Storyteller

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. — Chow Yun-Fat

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home. — Jenn Granneman

Design is ... above all an effort to improve reality ... I always try to begin with considerations of its function ... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on ... — Gianfranco Frattini