Scott Cairns Quotes

#1. Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self ... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Misty Upham

#2. Why did being a princess always come down to taxes and cows?

Merrie Haskell

#3. He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Scott Cairns

#4. Just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation ... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

Sam Abell

#5. Christ's humanity occasions our divinity

Scott Cairns

#6. Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

Scott Cairns

#8. Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation.

Jens Stoltenberg

#9. I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.

Scott Cairns