L.B. Scott Quotes

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.

I'm a girl."When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed, " she

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she’s beautiful.

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.

There are few second chances when it comes to establishing your leadership legacy.

Put your name on the mailbox.

Stay in your lane.

[Running] is a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can’t run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

In a sprint, if you don't have perfect form, you're doomed. The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time.

Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery

In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

We don’t see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.

The fact that you don’t realize how wonderful you are only makes you more wonderful.

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart, " he said.

An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it

I know my rights.""And I know you're wrong.

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

To want a gift and not receive it, that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.

No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.