S.C. Stephens Quotes

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

S.C. Stephens

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• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Yourself
  • Shoes

• You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Book
  • Childhood

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Study

• Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Long
  • Water

• A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • May
  • Growing

• Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Die
  • Health

• The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Professional

• There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Stop

• A notable scheme has occurred to me.

  

  Jack Vance

• I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

  

  Anthony Weiner

• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Country
  • Real

• When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Men
  • Past
  • Daily

• Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

  

  Bruce Lee

• 'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • World
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Nature
  • Psychology
  • Ethics

• ὄλβιος, ὅς θείων πραπίδων ἐκτήσατο πλοῦτον,/δειλὸς δ’, ὧι σκοτόεσσα θεῶν πέρι δόξα μέμηλεν.

  

  Empedocles

• We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Movement
  • Masters
  • Police Forces

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • Ethics