Top 160 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Scott

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

He who retreats lives longer.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true

You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play.

You are not living, you are surviving.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I want it to be like, 'Hey who donated that hospital wing that's saving so many lives?' 'I don't know. It was anonymous.' 'Well, guess what. It was Michael Scott.' 'But how do you know? It was anonymous.' 'Because I'm him.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.