Bryden Blackfish Quotes & Sayings

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish — George R R Martin

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? — Pope John Paul II

Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was? — Linda Colley

When it comes to salvation, we are all fugitives. Psalm 119:176 — Felix Wantang

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear. — Jonathan Evison

The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson. — D.R. Khashaba

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. — Suzanne Farrell

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.). — Marcel Proust

The"b" word and the "n" word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison. — Maya Angelou

the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative. — Hubert Crackanthorpe

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Flying High with the Angels — Debbie Ann Egdell

At this moment,' I said, 'I think you will be surprised at what he will allow. Our centurion has just discovered what he lives for, and it is this. — M.C. Scott