A Quotes
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“A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.”
“A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”
Source: The Good Guy
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever.”
“A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]
“A scar on the heart will heal.
Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.”
“A scarce, artificial and belated phenomenon, love can only blossom under certain mental conditions, rarely conjoined, and totally opposed to the freedom of morals which characterizes the modern era. Véronique had known too many discothèques, too many lovers; such a way of life impoverishes a human being, inflicting sometimes serious and always irreversible damage. Love as a kind of innocence and as a capacity for illusion, as an aptitude for epitomizing the whole of the other sex in a single loved being rarely resists a year of sexual immorality, and never two. In reality the successive sexual experiences accumulated during adolescence undermine and rapidly destroy all possibility of projection of an emotional and romantic sort; progressively, and in fact extremely quickly, one becomes as capable of love as an old slag. And so one leads, obviously, a slag’s life; in ageing one becomes less seductive, and on that account bitter. One is jealous of the young, and so one hates them. Condemned to remain unavowable, this hatred festers and becomes increasingly fervent; then it dies down and fades away, just as everything fades away. All that remains is resentment and disgust, sickness and the anticipation of death.”
Source: Whatever
“A scarcity in money will generally bring about an abundance in goods and services. Whereas an abundance in money tends to bring about a scarcity of goods and services.”
Source: Bitcoin & Exponential Freedom: How Hard Money Restores Freedom & Prosperity
“A scared world needs a fearless church.”
“A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love things that are endless, I hate them to stop. It's like order and disorder: I rather love disorder and things that move, it's a state where one gets more things done!”
“A scarlet flame suffused her face. 'You are very insolent,’ she said, lamely. ‘I’ve often been told so. But I don’t believe it.”
Source: Scaramouche
“A scary but yet beautiful smile”
“A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that!”
“A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.”
“A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.”
“A scattered effort is a poor effort.”
“A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the girl, a little anxiously as if this oncoming town were some kind of test to be met.
An illuminated road sign flashes by:
CAUTION!
MAIN STREET AHEAD - SLOW UP
The man nods grimly, as if agreeing with that first word. But not in the way it is meant.
The lights grow bigger, spread out on either side. Street lights peer out here and there among the trees. The highway suddenly sprouts a plank sidewalk on each side of it. Dark store-windows glide by.
With an instinctive gesture, the man dims his lights from blinding platinum to just a pale wash. A lunch-room window drifts by. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.”
“A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.”
“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”
“A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.”
“A scene of Mahabharata where the Surya Devta(Sun God)would come to bless Kunti with a baby The child watching this on TV says "I have been taught that Neil Armstrong had taken several days to reach the moon.Surya Devta took only half a minute to land up in the Kunti's room; that too, he didn't even need a rocket-he had simply walked. Science and Sanskrit had always appeared contradicting subjects to me at school:-)”
“A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.”
Source: Book of Sketches
“A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.”
Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel
“A scented rose is a ruby mine.”
“A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't”
Source: Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82
“A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."”
“A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.”
“A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.”
Source: Murder by the Book
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”
“A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.”
“A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.”
“A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.”
“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.”
Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers
“A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.”
“A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.”
“A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.”
“A scholar came to me the other day and asked - how can I be a human being? I replied - by living as nothing and calling everyone our own.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“A scholar came to me the other day and said "sir, why do you laugh so much - you are an eminent thinker of our century - you should appear more serious and composed" - hearing this, I burst out in yet another brief laughter and then said to him gently "my dear sir, why can't I laugh in front of my people, my own kind, my humanity, whom I hold most dear - what do I have to hide with the veil of seriousness - I would rather infect another person with a bit of joy through my laughter, than make them desperately serious, with pompous words - a good laughter is as uplifting as a good teaching, for it is simply meditation.”
“A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.”
Source: Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
“A scholar has to know a little of everything.”
Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
“A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.”
Source: Consciousness Explained