Walter Scott Quotes

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Quotes to Explore
-
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
-
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
-
If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
-
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
-
This love is silent.
-
For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
-
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
-
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
-
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
-
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
-
I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
-
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
-
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
-
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
-
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
-
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
-
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
-
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
-
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.
-
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.