Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

Scott Westerfeld

• Soul
• Easy
• Shoes
• Might
• Leather
• Junkie

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Running
  • Shoes

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Soul
  • Mortgage
  • Norm

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Forgive

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Love
  • Woman

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Black
  • Away
  • Leather

• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Know
  • Easy

• The soul is subject to dollars.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul

• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Present

• Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Sad

• We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • World
  • Live

• We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Commitment

• The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Forgotten
  • Realities

• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Soul
  • Easy
  • Shoes