William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  • It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  • Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

  • I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  • I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

  • I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.

  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  • Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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