Elderfield Road Quotes & Sayings

The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves. — Gretchen Carlson

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth. — Jeremy Bentham

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be. — B.C. Forbes

Keep your thoughts pure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name. — C.S. Lewis

The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which is key to the book -and no one seems to have picked this up in writings on Freud - is that, in the later Freud, the essence of humour is the ability to look at myself and find myself ridiculous. That makes me laugh. — Simon Critchley

Myth murdering myth: that's war these days. — William H Gass

You are not alone. You are not being singled out by the fates to suffer. — Karen Salmansohn

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank C. Laubach

The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed. It was not an invention of the philosophers of the Quartenary, when the soul was little more than a muddled proposition. With the passing of time, as well as then social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny. Add to this general observation, the particular circumstance that in simple spirits, the remorse caused by committing some evil act often becomes confused with ancestral fears of every kind, and the result will be that the punishment of the prevaricator ends up being, without mercy or pity, twice what he deserved. — Jose Saramago

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life. — Julia Cameron