Bowthorpe Surgery Quotes & Sayings

There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end. — John Connolly

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects. — Jonathan Haidt

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs
but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own. — Robert J. Sawyer

Pay attention to proverbs. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans. — Tristram Stuart

Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on the Precipice of Change will we truly move forward ... It will most definitely take a Miracle. — Solange Nicole

I've never been one to bet on the weather. — J. Paul Getty

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement. — Robert Greene

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. — Kenneth Branagh

offered a modicum of privacy, and for an overnight price of only 50 Heller. — Anonymous

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact. — Kevin Drum

Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh. — Penn Jillette

Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink. — Bill Hybels

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. — Roy Blount Jr.