L.B. Scott Quotes
Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
The great actors always play themselves.
One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.
The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.
Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders, " she muttered softly,
As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
Someone should have warned me about love's dark underbelly, about the rejection and despair.
We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can’t we?
Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.
To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to giveyoursel f permission to fai l . In fact, bet ter yet, don' t even wor ry about winning orlosing. Just DO.
Werewolves and silver bullets!” Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. “Lord, what fools these mortals be!
The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!
Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.
Ours was such a delicious risk.My being abruptly and altogetherEcstatic and be-stilled.
Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.
To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!
I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."D'Molay the Freeman Tracker
When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?
We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.
To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.
In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.
How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?
I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.
I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might not see you.
I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.
All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just waiting for the end." - Edie
The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.
To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.
My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife