L.B. Scott Quotes

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

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

It is impossible to control creation.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.

Oh, yeah. You're the best, " I grinned back at him."Pumpkin, hello. Of course I am!

Nice enough?” he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. “Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.

It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I'm most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.