Walter Scott Quotes

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

  Kajol
  • Mother
  • Dying
  • Gift

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • Best
  • Marriage

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Certain

• Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Society
  • Bores
  • Horde

• He was naming the groups that were pro-war. No one minds his naming the British or the Administration. But to name 'Jew' is un-American - even if it is done without hate or even criticism. Why?

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Done
  • Why
  • American

• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Trying
  • War
  • Decision

• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War
  • Brave