Scrabbled Quotes

#1. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Ken MacLeod

#2. Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town
his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain
where he used to dance at the Saturday hops.

Graham Greene

#3. I myself have never had one, but now I can picture one. I didn't like Wuthering Heights at first, but the minute that specter, Cathy, scrabbled her bony fingers on the window glass - I was grasped by the throat and not let go. With that Emily I could hear Heathcliff's pitiful cries upon the moors.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#4. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!

Richard Bach

#5. Observing the wizard's high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion's assistant.

Lita Burke

#6. Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

#7. She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. Everyone is a reader... Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.

Anonymous

#9. I would like to say that I'm sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I'm not?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

Seth Shostak

#11. Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

Seth Godin

#12. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.

Sami Yusuf

#13. He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Lawrence Summers

#15. No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

Joshua Prager

#16. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

Joseph Campbell

#17. The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.

Michael Chabon

#18. It's better to light up a small light, than to swear at the dark.

Jozef Ciger Hronsky

#19. Behind narrowed lids his eyes were ice, and they followed my every motion ...

Cara McKenna