Velvet Scarlatina Quotes & Sayings

In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the White Man came, and the White Man took it away from them. It was natural that they should resist. It was natural that they employed the only means of warfare known to them against those whom they regarded as usurpers. It was our business, as scouts, to be continually on the warpath against them when they committed depredations. But no scout ever hated the Indians in general. — William F. Cody

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. — Seneca The Younger

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it. — J. Cole

Folly's seeds produce fruits of death. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It hurts to much to be close to you, but continually pushed away. — Jeaniene Frost

I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. — Augusten Burroughs

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice. — Michael Eisner

Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go. — Heather K. O'Hara

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes."

"You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."

"The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal. — Tony Hendra