Wemyss Scotland Quotes & Sayings

An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one. — Jay Kristoff

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents. — Ernst Haeckel

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback. — Charles Keating

Hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate — Charles Dickens

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through. — Joel Osteen

But even though I know my flaws are many (many many many), and there are always ways I could be better, and I should never stop working for that - I also need to give myself a break. I can cut myself some slack sometimes. Because I'm a work in progress. Because nobody is perfect. At least I acknowledge the mistakes I've made, and am making. At least I'm trying. That means something, doesn't it?
And just because I have room for improvement doesn't mean I'm worthless, or that I have nothing to offer to, like, the world. — Hannah Harrington

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU! — Russell Howard

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level. — David Mitchell

Most people find the word Apocalypse, to be a terrifying concept. Checked in the dictionary, it means only revelation, although it obviously has also come to mean end of the world. As to what the end of the world means, I would say that probably depends on what we mean by world. I don't think this means the planet, or even the life forms upon the planet. I think the world is purely a construction of ideas, and not just the physical structures, but the mental structures, the ideologies that we've erected, that is what I would call the world. Our political structures, philosophical structures, ideological frameworks, economies. These are actually imaginary things, and yet that is the framework that we have built our entire world upon. It strikes me that a strong enough wave of information could completely overturn and destroy all of that. A sudden realization that would change our entire perspective upon who we are and how we exist. — Alan Moore

It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony. — Michel Faber

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity. — Dale Carnegie

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box. — Jason Alexander

He understood why people held hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it wasn't. It was about maintaining contact. It was about speaking without words. It was about I want you with me and Don't go. — Cassandra Clare

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah. — Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi