Scott's quotes

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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
— H.P. Lovecraft

21 people liked it

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
— H.P. Lovecraft

67 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Ford Gibson

90 people liked it

"...I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us."
— William Ford Gibson (Idoru)

14 people liked it

"The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent."
— William Ford Gibson

13 people liked it

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
— William Ford Gibson

tags: internet
4 people liked it

"Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
— Mark Twain (The Diaries of Adam and Eve)

10 people liked it

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Letter to Joseph Twichell, 9/13/1898"
— Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, jerk, reading, writing
250 people liked it

"'there is no bad whiskey, there are only some whiskies that aren't as good as others'"
— Raymond Chandler

26 people liked it

"I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights."
— Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep)

tags: detectives, sharp
10 people liked it

"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: non-conformity, rules
101 people liked it

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: hope, life, pain, strength, tragedy
77 people liked it

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
46 people liked it

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness
38 people liked it

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: peace
19 people liked it

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
161 people liked it

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love
130 people liked it

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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— Johnny Cash

24 people liked it

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
— Johnny Cash

tags: black, hypocrisy, individuality, quo, religion, status
10 people liked it

"There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her."
— Johnny Cash

12 people liked it

"If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?'"
— John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

tags: adversity, god, love, trust
44 people liked it

"What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God."
— Hubert Van Zeller

tags: god, inspirational, soul
20 people liked it

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."
— Sophy Burnham

tags: god
4 people liked it

"...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life."
— Dashiell Hammett

tags: pulp, wisdom
5 people liked it

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
427 people liked it

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, extraterrestrials
359 people liked it

"I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: art, humor
73 people liked it

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
— Bill Watterson

39 people liked it

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin
12 people liked it

"Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic." "
— Pope Benedict XVI

7 people liked it

"If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you."
— Pope Benedict XVI

8 people liked it

". . . the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are inseparable. Therefore, a slogan that was popular some years back, 'Jesus yes, Church no,' is totally inconceivable with the intention of Christ. This individualistically chosen Jesus is an imaginary Jesus."
— Pope Benedict XVI (The Apostles: The Origin of the Church and Their Co-Workers)

tags: church
4 people liked it

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

tags: insanity, madness, pkd, reality
946 people liked it

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
768 people liked it

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
— Isaac Asimov

65 people liked it

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
— Isaac Asimov

67 people liked it

"But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness."
— Isaac Asimov (I, Asimov: A Memoir)

11 people liked it