Scudder Quotes

#1. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

John Buchan

#2. Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam.

Lawrence Block

#3. In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

Janet Scudder

#4. I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

Janet Scudder

#5. Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.

Janet Scudder

#6. The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#7. Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#9. Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

E. M. Forster

#10. An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#11. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

#12. I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

Don McCullin

#13. War to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#14. Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#15. It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#16. Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

Preneet Kaur

#17. The suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#18. People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

Scudder Parker

#19. The right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. When there is peace and harmony within, these questions lose their meaning. (Songs of the Mist - Page 95)

Shashi

#20. Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

Thomas I. Emerson

#21. He came to understand the difference between the gods' blessed and a smart man. His uncle was one. His father the other.

Melina Marchetta

#22. I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

Sarah Hughes

#23. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Philippa Gregory