Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls. The
Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.
In government, the scum rises to the top.
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.
I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
All businessmen are scum.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone
In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.
Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!
Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.