A. O. Scott Quotes

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

I don't care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you'd have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to fight for what you believe in.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

You choose who gets your attention, and you don’t have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period.

We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much more to be written. I won’t put down my pen if you won’t.

My mind loves you so much it wants to own you. My heart loves you so much it wants to set you free.

I will love you through everything. Can you do yourself the same honor?

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

We loved each other.We hurt each other.We left each other.Now we hate each other.Let’s not stop there.Let’s finally forgive each other.

Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?

Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.

I’ve found a new kind of home in us, and I’m ready to move in for good.

I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good.

I love you, and I know you love me too.I’m just not sure that’s enough anymore.Don’t we both deserve more than this struggle?

Life changes completely when Love comes first.I don’t need to know you to love you. I’ll start by loving you and see what I come to know from there.

If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can’t change other people.

Don’t stay because you think you can change him.You can’t change him.Maybe work on changing yourself so you don’t feel compelled to stay with menlike him in the first place.

I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.

She wished she liked him more.She wished she loved him less.

Let's never stop holding each other's hands.We all need to have our hand held sometimes.

Vulnerability supported by love is perhaps the most powerful catalyst for real connection.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

She's in the Catskill, " Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. "

I am a vicious and unrepentant killer who should be locked up. With him, my idiot boyfriend.

Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension, ” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have.

I'm realizing that some of my greatest (or at least most determined) genius lies in my ability to procrastinate.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'We can't both be Alexander.'Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas, " I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.

May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title.

The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in need.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone, I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.

Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.

there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.

You get a medal for being tough.