L.B. Scott Quotes

listen to me, you’ve got this.seriously, you’ve got this.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

He thinks Goliath can end the war, " Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all, " Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

We make things happen be believing they will, " he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".

What magic is this?' the muse says to the man. 'A flower, a dream, a fairy-tale wish, ' the man says to his muse. The muse smiles.

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

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 in history or nothing happens.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

The things that had changed seem out of place, and the things that had remained the same made Charlie feel out of place.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

Man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful.

I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are.Will you forever remind yourself, too?

Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.

I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Oh, well, ” yawned Vernon, “we all know that it’s you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto ’Live and let live.

In fact she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Art is affirmation.

Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.

Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.

I'm a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a person isn't also kind.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Now, young lady, I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

I'm such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

I had to learn to see my shadow and hold my pain in its fullness with acceptance and forgiveness so that I could release the hate I felt for myself and quit hurling it blindly toward others.

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.