Beatson Institute Quotes & Sayings

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people. — Erwin McManus

I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end. — Siobhan Vivian

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State. — Brian Higgins

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done. — Salman Rushdie

If building roads actually resulted in less traffic, then surely after sixty years of interstate highway construction we would all be cruising at highway speed. — Janette Sadik-Khan

All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media. — Germany Kent

This, no doubt, was the call 33 had heard. Bored with his balanced diet of maize and maple peas, tired of the pecking order of the loft and the predictability of each day - the bird had wanted out; wanted up and away. A day of high life; of food that had to be chased a little, and tasted all the better for that; of the companionship of wild things. All this went through Cal's head, in a vague sort of way, while he watched the circling flocks. — Clive Barker

By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell. — Maya Angelou

There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos. — Zadie Smith