Scytale C Quotes & Sayings

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. — Fiona Apple

To be nice to someone you hate, To be respectful and courteous to all, While holding in your true feelings and emotions, the ability to live like this, takes the strongest of us, it takes the weakest of us. But when the day comes that we meet, just know all that I hold in will be focused on you and you alone. — Christopher W. Lowe

The future is a thing to be shaped," Scytale said. "Hold that thought, Princess. — Frank Herbert

The ways of God "Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect."1 Holy Scripture never orders and never counsels us to do the impossible. By these words, then, the Lord Jesus does not command us to accomplish the very works and ways of God, which no one can attain in perfection. But He invites us to model ourselves on them, as much as is possible, by applying ourselves to imitate them. We can do this with the help of grace and we should do so. And as the Bishop John said, nothing is more suitable to man than to imitate his Creator, and to carry out, to the degree that he is able, the will of God. — Thomas Aquinas

Think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices. — Astra Taylor

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there. — Henry Cisneros

New York is the true City of Light in any season. — Charles Kuralt

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. — Jim Messina

As a leader, you get what you tolerate. People do not repeat behavior unless it is rewarded. — Susan Scott

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured. — Frank Herbert

Filter all negative voices. But retain the positive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general]. — Kevin Rudd

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet. — Michel Gondry

Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord. — Frank Herbert

first ever military cryptographic device, the Spartan scytale, dating back to the fifth century B.C. The scytale is a wooden staff around which a strip of leather or parchment is wound, — Simon Singh

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake — Laurell K. Hamilton