Scrivener 3 Quotes

#1. Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart
I know. It is often in mine.

Veronica Roth

#3. We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

Margaret Chan

#4. The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

Robinson Jeffers

#5. The truth is Fort Endeavor needs you." Confused, she shifted in her seat, darting a look at him. "I need you," he amended quietly. "Not just your services as scrivener. I need your goodness and gentleness and strength. Sometimes I think you're the only one I can trust, even above my own officers.

Laura Frantz

#6. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#7. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Desmond Tutu

#8. To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour

E. M. Bounds

#9. I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

Maxine Waters

#10. Jesus is not just what true divinity looks like. He is also what true humanity looks like.

Glen Scrivener

#11. He was trying not to grin, but it was exceedingly difficult with Lady Penwood gasping like a fish on land.

Julia Quinn

#12. Don't go to business school.

Paul Hawken

#13. If you make a Star Wars reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - Bartleby, The Scrivener, probably not so much.

Adam Reed

#14. Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Chin-Ning Chu

#15. I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

Mike Noonan

#16. A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Margaret Deland

#17. He had all the pleasure of going to be happy.

Robert M. Coates

#18. Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted with my present assignment, but a junior enough scrivener to be obligated to accept the same.

David Mitchell

#19. Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

Michael Marshall Smith

#20. This is a wild world.

Veronica Roth

#21. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

John Steinbeck