“ A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ”
- Charles Edward Montague- Copy
- 1.7K
“ All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
- 724
“ The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. ”
- Dennis Green- Copy
- 447
“ It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ”
- David Hume- Copy
- 385
“ Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 3K
“ When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
- 101
“ One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. ”
- David F. Houston- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. ”
- Bryan Adams- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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