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...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.
— Elizabeth Berg, The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I’ve found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.
— Alyscia Cunningham
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.
— Pat Summitt, Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.
— K. Martin Beckner
We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away a sob, this thin man in his sixties with the soft androgynous face that aging seemed to bring, as though all the hormones were finally mixed up in a big coed pot because it just didn't matter anymore.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered by the effects of time, but nothing will tarnish a soul that will never forget what its like to experience creation with endless wonder and appreciation. Each time I see the first snowfall of the season I feel it's the first time I've seen it at all.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
— Pablo Casals
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
— James Lee Burke
The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
— Graham Greene, May We Borrow Your Husband  &  Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man’s pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body.
— William Sarabande, Walkers of the Wind
..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.
— Stephen King, The Bachman Books
If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
— Mickey Mantle
Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.
— John Crowley, Little, Big
Torka extended a conciliatory hand and laid it upon the old man’s shoulder. “Umak, Manaravak, Dak, and Tankh and Chuk will walk at my side. We will miss your strength, courage, and wisdom, but a man in possession of these qualities is needed here”.They left Grek standing at the edge of camp with his spear in hand and his pack frame on his back. As Torka walked on without looking back he wondered if he had ever done anything in his life as difficult as that.”You had no choice.” Umak came to walk beside him with Dak and Companion at his side. Manaravak and the two boys trotted on ahead.Torka eyed Dak and Umak without slowing his step. “Do you two imagine that you will never be old?”Dak replied with his usual curtness. “When I am old, I will have sense enough to know when it is time to step aside and let younger men take my place on the hunt”."It would seem the best thing to do,” Torka agreed. “But will you know when you are old? Or will your years sneak up on you like hunters tracking caribou… one after the other, each looking just the same until the stalking cloaks fall away and the spears of truth come out to wound you… until one day you are a young man trapped and rattling around in an old man’s skin, still believing that your old bones can do all the things they once did in your youth and trying to prove it even if it kills you?
— William Sarabande, Walkers of the Wind
I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.
— Rebecca Johns, The Countess
The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.
— Stant Litore, Strangers in the Land
Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny’s arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a little bald head—a miniature of an aging monk.
— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
— J. Matthew Nespoli
Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.
— Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.
— Karen Jones Gowen, Uncut Diamonds
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?
— Jane Smiley
I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete
— James Lee Burke, Creole Belle
One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.
— Richard Russo, Empire Falls
When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
— Michelle Shocked
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
— John Lanchester, Capital
The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns.
— Daniel Woodrell, The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.
— Andrea Camilleri, La pista di sabbia
One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.
— Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.
— Andrew Levkoff, The Other Alexander
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore
—  because you dress unexceptionally.
It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator rushing up to meet you like the hard pavement. What a small sip of gall to be able to time with each passing year the ever-shorter interval in which someone's eyes focus upon you. And then shift away.
— David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that’s become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she’s written in stone. Her “haves” being the ones she’s got and maybe not getting anymore.
— Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart
The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here
— Jon Scieszka, Funny Business
REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age,people knowyou're fat and old.
— Chocolate Waters
In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.
— Edward John Trelawny, Adventures of a Younger Son
I'm falling into disrepair
— Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.
— Mavis Gallant
Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.
— Faina Ranevskaya
It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life.
— Stewart O'Nan, Emily, Alone
At eighty things do not occur
—  they recur.
Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, "the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king.
— Antonia Fraser, Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
It happens to everyone and it happens fast.
— Joseph Hansen
Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
— Stephen Richards
Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.
— Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.
— Stephen Richards
Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.
— Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear
Definition of failure - wishful sinking!
— Stephen Richards
The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.
— Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
The more you give, the less you need.
— Stephen Richards
You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.
— Stephen Richards
It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.
— Stephen Richards
Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.
— Stephen Richards
How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.
— Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
Our level of love or our level of fear determines the state of our reality.
— Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear
When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return.
— Stephen Richards
The only limits to what you can manifest, depends on you.
— Stephen Richards
While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Success In Love
Shine bright, be yourself.
— Stephen Richards
Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually.
— Stephen Richards
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
— Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
— Stephen Richards
One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation
Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them.
— Stephen Richards
By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.
— Hailey Giblin, Hailey's Story
When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.
— Stephen Richards
Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
— Stephen Richards
Don’t settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!
— Stephen Richards
Whenever you enjoy the bounties of nature like the sunrise or a blooming flower you are connecting yourself with the pure potentiality.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.
— Stephen Richards
None of us are ordinary
—  we all have a story to tell.
Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Second class travel is better than third class walking.
— Stephen Richards
Resentment’s appetite is never fulfilled.
— Stephen Richards
If you lose your mind when in a large group then use someone else’s!
— Stephen Richards
Philosophers think, creators make!
— Stephen Richards
When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.
— Stephen Richards
How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
— Stephen Richards
If words were actions then we would all be winners!
— Stephen Richards
Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity.
— Stephen Richards
Love does not cost a thing, but it is priceless...
— Stephen Richards
Putting yourself first means you will never be last.
— Stephen Richards
When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it.
— Stephen Richards, Anything You Wish: Beyond Limits
If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.
— Stephen Richards, Anything You Wish: Beyond Limits
Don’t wait to think out of the box – create your own box.
— Stephen Richards
If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ....
— Stephen Richards
Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.
— Stephen Richards
There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.
— Stephen Richards
If you play and work hard then rest hard.
— Stephen Richards
They think giving people longer prison sentences is going to teach people a lesson. Well that is just fantasy, as we just take our drugs and violence in to the prison. Our brothers and sisters, pals or rivals outside plug the gap that has been left by the dealer that was selling the crack or smack in the first place. Just like kamikazes, when one is dead, fifty queue up to take their place.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Bongo and Shug seen what was going on and decided to smash holes all over the roof of the hall, just for something to do. Bongo was first on to the roof, where, unknown to him he was being filmed from a cell in the hall straight across from him, but Bongo didn’t give a fuck as he never even wore a mask to try and protect his face, he was in his element, so was Shug. And to their credit, they didn’t half wreck the roof of the hall.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
There is no getting away from the fact, he is one of only a few screws in the system who are the real McCoy. Anyone reading this book who has spent time in Scottish prisons will no doubt agree, this chimp is up for it just as much as the prisoners. I personally would love to see more screws like him, as he doesn’t bother with all this shitty report piss. If you want to fight him, he comes into your cell, one-on-one, man-to-man.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Rockweiler (nickname) has settled down over the years, he is a man mountain, he stands some six-and-a-half foot tall, and is round about eighteen or nineteen stones in weight. He too works in Barlinnie, this dog was responsible for giving the Wendy House seg unit the tough name tag, as he dished out the beatings to some very hard prisoners in the past. I can’t take that away from him, but he was a bit of a shit bag as well because he wore the full riot body armour when he offered to fight.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Adrian (not sure if real Christian name?) was a PTI in Perth Prison before he came to work in the special units with us. Adrian was a gentleman, but he was also a very, very hard man that didn’t take any shit. He is now working up in Inverness Prison, but I can tell you, this man can go for fun. I have witnessed him in action, I have been about all the diggers in Scotland ten times over and I would put this man up there with the best of them for a roll about with the prisoner.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Big Rab has worked in Barlinnie’s Wendy House for over seven and a half years. The average time a screw works in the seg blocks is two years, this man has seen it and done it all. Most prisoners will agree, he isn’t a dog either but can be when he wants. He has had legendary roll abouts with some of Scotland’s hardest criminals but at the end of it he doesn’t hold any grudges.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I was also in Glenochil Prison in 1992 when Hammy was stabbed five times in the chest and belly off another man called Fudge, but give Hammy his dues, he never tried to jail bait his attacker up. Fudge never got any more time to his sentence for the frenzied attack on Hammy. This man has also had pit bulls and rottweiler dogs set on him and guess what, he beat the dogs.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Another man of sheer violence was the late Stewart Boyd, he was killed in a car accident over in Spain’s Costa del Sol shortly after being released from prison in June 2003. But he certainly left his mark on the city streets of Glasgow. He was a force to be reckoned with, a gang enforcer. Murder and witness intimidation were high on his criminal charge sheet.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Gary Moore is another legendary figure of sheer violence. In prison, Gary has spent most of his adult life inside one jail or another. When, on the odd occasion, he does get out of prison, it doesn’t take him long to go on a murderous campaign of total terror. Gary has been charged and stood trial for some three or four different murders.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
At one point the worst thing to happen was the odd stabbing or slashing, the violence that we live with nowadays used to only be seen in Hollywood gangster movies such as Gangs of New York, Menace to Society and Boys and the Hood. Even when we were reading about the crack hitting London, no one in Scotland would have thought in their wildest dreams that it would have taken off in our cities, towns and now even highland villages.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I was reading that there are children at the age of twelve and thirteen selling their bodies at dinnertimes for as little as £5 when they should be at school. Now if that is not a problem, I don’t know what is. The drug problem has got way too far out of hand.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
There are now babies being born in our hospitals with crack or heroin habits, come on, fuck, no one would have dreamt such a horrible thing would happen to a newborn babies in Scotland. I didn’t think the sons and daughters, mothers and fathers of Scotland would have been messed up in such a nasty circle of misery, depression, violence, suicides and prisons because of drugs.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Ian Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 in Glasgow, Scotland, he’s responsible for a series of murders that took place from 1962 until 1965 in Greater Manchester. Brady and Myra Hindley met in 1961, she was a 19-year-old typist, he was a 23-year-old stock clerk. By 1966, both were tried at Chester Assizes for multiple murder. The trial lasted 15 days; Brady and Hindley were convicted on 6 May 1966, sentenced to life imprisonment.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
TC Campbell doesn’t need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been convicted for. TC went on a fifty-day hunger strike, he ended up in hospital. This man was willing to die to prove his innocence, if he never done his famous hunger strike he probably would have never go the MPS in government to sit up and take note.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.
— Stephen Richards
It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.
— Stephen Richards
Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.
— Stephen Richards
Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.
— Stephen Richards
Just as chillingly as Manuel took police to the spot where he had buried 17-year-old Isabella Cooke, it was reminiscent of this when Brady took police to Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire, when he and Hindley were flown there by helicopter to walk on the graves of more victims.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
On the morning of Wednesday 13 March 1996, Thomas West Hamilton shattered the peaceful country town of Dunblane, Stirlingshire, with a fusillade of gunfire that reverberated round the world.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
There’s just no comparison between these hard men, some fight with their bare hands, some with their brains and some with weapons. Some have a sixth sense for survival, avoiding death with catlike ease. I don’t include any world champ at this or that, but I do include men that would wipe the floor with any world champion at anything you wanted to throw at them.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
When Barlinnie’s Prison doctor, Dr Danson, came to see Dingus, he turned in disgust at the state Dingus was left to lie in. Doctor Danson refused to treat him as he knew Dingus’s injuries were life threatening, he told the top warden that Dingus would need to be rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for emergency surgery. The screws in the seg block refused to listen to the doctor, they pushed and manhandled their own doctor out of Dingus’s cell and threatened him with a severe beating if he made anything public about Dingus’s injuries.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
From the tens of thousands of criminals I have mixed with behind bars and in the streets or have known of over the last three decades of my criminally active life, the Eighties, Nineties and Naughties, I have selected the crème de la crème of the toughest, maddest, hardest Scottish bastards that have ever drawn breath.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Aberdeenshire’s Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.
— Stephen Richards
No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The riot screws didn’t give a monkey’s about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Once the screws left, most of the six or seven boys who had been overpowered by the SAS were not in any fit state to move, never mind talk. In May 1988 Malkie and Sammo and one other boy, whose name escapes me right now, got a total of twenty-seven years between them for mobbing and rioting and assault.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
When the infamous Shotts riot of ‘93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friend’s cell, smoking hash, waiting for the riot to end. Dingus had seen all the crazy shit before.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I had today so what does tomorrow matter!
— Stephen Richards
I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I will not go into detail but the screw put up a little bit of a resistance, fair play to him, but we were so desperate for the drugs in her medical bag that nothing was going to stop us getting at them. That is what happened, we got the bag of drugs from her hand. I can tell you, we were like two tramps round a bag of chips in a bin.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Porkie and me came to some sort of agreement with the screw and the nurse, and after some haggling we gave ourselves up. After that, I never saw my friend Porkie again until we appeared at Edinburgh High Court, where we each got six years on top of our sentences for one night of madness. That just shows you how drugs can get a grip over your mind.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The screws have brought all the revenge attacks on themselves. Most prisoners that have done some nasty damage in the system have come through the young offenders, where that was just a breeding ground for hatred from the screws point of view. They were famous for bullying and battering young, defenceless boys to the point of death, in some cases.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
I keep telling the screws over and over again, ‘If you treat a young boy in prison like a dog, keep him in a cell that is like a cage and constantly beat him and bully him, that boy is going to grow up hating yous and the system.’ The only thing on his mind will be revenge, maybe it is not revenge on the screws that so frequently bullied and tortured him, but in the boy’s eyes he is getting revenge on the uniform, as it all means the same thing in the boy’s or man’s eyes.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
It was so funny, I witnessed this with my own eyes, Andy and the screw were like two WWF wrestlers, we were locked behind the grill gates cheering Andy on, the chants started. The chant was to the tune of Jingle Bells and went like this: Stab a screw, stab a screw, stab a screw today, all that fun it is to stab a screw on New Year’s Day, but it was only 29 December.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk’s morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa’s knee, the word ‘paedophile’ should send more shivers up your spine than the word ‘druggie’.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Mags seemed to attract trouble wherever she went. The Raploch Estate in Stirling was a nice backdrop, a middleclass place to live and bring up your kids until the scourge of drugs took a grip of its sons and daughters, like any other quiet township. The more the people needed drugs, the rougher and more violent the place became.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn’t care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera’s were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn’t waste much time getting to Big Mags’ door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Brian ‘The Tax Man’ Cockerill - While I’m mentioning drug dealers, I have to give a mention to a man hated by the peddlers of soul destroying stuff, big Brian ‘The Tax Man’ Cockerill (AKA as Scot’s Brian), born on 16 December 1964 in Coatbridge, in Lanarkshire, at 6ft 3in, with 23 stone of rock solid muscle, his awesome power has made him a truly terrifying force in Britain’s underworld. A walking colossus, anyone who gets in his way and tries to stay there had better be ready for the hiding of their life.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
As for that Maxine Carr, she could have helped clear up the murders much quicker, but she chose not to grass her lover to the coppers, no one in the criminal world likes grasses, but this isn’t any normal criminal case. Huntley isn’t a criminal, he is a total fucking, monster beast who, if I had my way, I could hang him in Soham town hall for the families to see.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
The last person to be hanged in Glasgow at the age of 31 was a beast by the name of Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, he swung from the gallows in Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.
— Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards
Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!
— Stephen Richards
When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!
— Stephen Richards
Putting yourself first means you will never be last!
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.
— Stephen Richards
An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.
— Stephen Richards
Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!
— Stephen Richards
It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.
— Stephen Richards
Her cheek against the moss, the young princess she had been - Aelin Galathynius - reached a hand for her. 'Get up', she said softly.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.
— Lori Goodwin
The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.
— Demi Lovato, Stay Strong
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Cries for help are frequently inaudible.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listenin
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
Yes I'm seeking for someone, to help me. So that some day I will be the someone to help some other one.
— Vignesh Karthi
Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.
— Dallin H. Oaks, Life's Lessons Learned: Personal Reflections
I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
— Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.
— Julia Cameron, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Help her," Peter pleaded. "Do something. You have ways. Your potions. Your medicines. Do something.
— Brom, The Child Thief
A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.
— Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten
You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!
— Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.
— Akiroq Brost
Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.
— Richie Norton
Pain and anger have to go somewhere. If we keep stuffing them down instead of processing them, we’ll end up either turning them inward, which isn’t good, or outward, which is no better.
— Lizzie Velásquez, Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
— Jay Woodman
Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself. Don’t ever seek pity from other people. Don’t ever play the victim, even if you are one.Why? It’s a mentality. If you wait for someone else to solve your problems, you’re usually in for a long wait. Even if you do get help, you probably won’t like the help you get.
— John Hawkins, 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
— Antonia Fraser, King Charles II
It does not matter if you have fewer resources at your stack, what matter is how much of your possession you are ready to share with others. You not need to be a millionaire to help others; you can always help others with whatever resource at your disposal.
— Pravin Agarwal, 8 Course Meal For The Soul
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— Self Help Reviews
Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.
— Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction
— Topsy Gift
Hardship makes us to rely solely on God for help.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To render help is to have the skills needed
— Sunday Adelaja
Seek help from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The lord has already provided everything that we need and all the necessary conditions needed to help us to succeed
— Sunday Adelaja
We have to make sure we have done our part then he will come and help us.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only God is our reliable help and protection
— Sunday Adelaja
Mother Teresa did not became famous by caring just about herself
— Manuel Corazzari
Being anonymous on help, it's feel's awesome.
— Nitesh Sabne
Let go of me,” I choke out, clawing blindly at Teren. The sharp tang of blood suddenly fills my nostrils, and I realize that it is from his wrists, spreading a film of scarlet around us. Somewhere ahead, the silhouette of our ship looms. We are getting closer.“I wish I could,” Teren spits, dripping venom. “There’s nothing I’d like to see more than you in the Underworld, Adelina.”His words spark my fury. He never intended to finish this journey with you. Teren grips my arm again so hard that I scream in pain. He is pulling us both toward the ship, his face set in grim determination.Then I hear him shout, “But I won’t.”But I won’t. My fury wavers, turning into bewilderment.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he’s done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us.“Maybe next time,” he says to me with that smile, “you won’t be so lucky.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
See!” Dad yelled. “Boys don’t stay with whores, Bianca. They leave them. And I’m not going to let you turn into a whore. Not my daughter. This is for your own good.”I looked up as he reached a hand down to grab my arm. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting to feel his fingers clamp around my forearm.But they never did.I heard a loud thud, and Dad grunted in pain. My eyes flew open. Wesley moved away from Dad, who was massaging his jaw with a shocked look on his face. “Why you little shithead!”“Are you all right?” Wesley asked, kneeling in front of me.“Did you just punch my dad?” I couldn’t help but wonder if I was delirious. Had all of this really just happened? Totally bizarre.“Yes,” Wesley admitted.“How dare you touch me!” Dad screamed, but he was having trouble balancing enough to approach us again. “How dare you fuck my daughter, then hit me, you son of a bitch!”I’d never heard my father swear like that before.“Come on,” Wesley said, helping me to my feet. “Let’s get out of here. You’re coming with me.” He wrapped an arm around me, pulling me close against his warm body, and ushered me out the open door.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
I got the groceries and lugged them all the way to Akinli’s dorm, running slightly behind because I couldn’t get into the building on my own. The university required ID cards to get into the dorms after six, and since I wasn’t an actual student, I had to wait for someone else to come along and scan his so I could piggyback in.“You need some help?” the boy asked, his eyes lingering on my mouth.I shook my head no.“Aww, come on. That’s way too heavy for you.”He came closer, and again I cursed our natural appeal. I wasn’t in danger exactly, and I knew that, but it didn’t make these encounters any less uncomfortable. I shook my head again.“No, really, which floor are you on? I can—”“Hey, Kahlen!” I looked up to see Akinli walking down the hall. His button-up was open over the gray shirt beneath it, but I was thrilled to see that he’d at least put one on. “I was starting to worry. Hey, Sam.”“Hey.” The boy gave Akinli a look and headed toward the stairwell, his displeasure at Akinli’s arrival clear. In the meantime, I felt my mood lift significantly. I was now officially on my first date.
— Kiera Cass, The Siren