The American Scholar Famous Quotes & Sayings

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. — Max Lerner

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going. — Thomas Mallon

Lachlan: "why are you crying, pretty girl?"
Logan: " Dude, you're always stealing my game — Jay McLean

My favorite red carpet jewelry is by Alberto Parada, who designed my Oscar jewelry, as it's modern yet old school at the same time. — Carly Steel

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens. — Laura Allen

Faith is not always about having positive emotional feelings toward God or life. — Lynn Anderson

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is? — Terence McKenna

I'm very good at keeping a secret. — Sean Bean

It's families that stop people. All they're good for is guilt. — Christopher Bollen

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. — Tom Araya

I don't think I've ever met an addict in long-term recovery who hasn't gone through at least one traumatic childhood experience. Research indicates that one traumatic event in childhood is as grave as continuous combat in a war zone. A traumatic event during childhood can leave a grave imprint on the human body. — Christopher Dines

All the love that history knows,
is said to be in every rose,
yet all the love that could be found in two,
is less than what I feel for you.. — Bradley Stewart

Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man. — Elizabeth Gaskell