Paul Scott Quotes
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Quotes to Explore
-
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
-
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
-
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
-
I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
-
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
-
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
-
New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
-
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
-
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
-
I can't cook to save my life.
-
My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
-
I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
-
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
-
Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
-
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
-
Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
-
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
-
When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
-
To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.
-
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
-
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
-
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
-
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
