Billingham Forum Quotes & Sayings

You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced a being who now lived in it as a foreigner. Do plants commit suicide? Do animals die of helplessness? They either function or disappear. You were perhaps a weak link, an accidental evolutionary dead end, a temporary anomaly not destined to burgeon again. — Edouard Leve

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. — Bertrand Russell

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming. — Robert M. Gates

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that. — Bob Uecker

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. — Grace Paley

I had never been in love before Abby, and no one had even piqued my interest since. My life was the woman standing before me, and the family we'd made together. — Jamie McGuire

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails. — Caitlin Thomas

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another. — Henry David Thoreau

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. — P.T. Barnum