"Scotland just isn't terribly Tory."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Scotland Quotes

“I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that gives me freedom but also still goes back to the idea of craft.”
“Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.”
“I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.”
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

Source : "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.
“I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.”

Source : "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.
“The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.”

Source : Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press
“You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.”
“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.”

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