Entrame Quotes & Sayings

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for. — Daniel Quinn

Getting the UK 'Climate Ready' has the potential to support economic growth for this country which should be a priority for all of us — Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron De Mauley

Patience shields you unnecessary error;
impatience exposes you to needless danger. — Matshona Dhliwayo

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support. — Ferguson Jenkins

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

Uncle Joe used to spend a fair amount of time in the loony bin. My family wasn't bothered by his regular trips to and from 'the facility'
they'd shrug and say, There goes Joe, and they'd put him in the car and take him in. One day Uncle Frank ... was driving Uncle Joe to the crazy place. When they got there, Joe asked Frank to drop him off at the door while Frank went and parked the car. Frank didn't think much of it, and dropped him off.
Joe went inside, smiled at the nurse, and said, 'Hi. I'm Frank Hornbacher. I'm here to drop off Joe. He likes to park the car, so I let him do that. He'll be right in.' The nurses nodded knowingly. The real Frank walked in. The nurse took his arm and guided him away, murmuring the way nurses always do, while Frank hollered in protest, insisting that he was Frank, not Joe. Joe, quite pleased with himself, gave Frank a wave and left. — Marya Hornbacher

Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it with a well-placed ping-pong ball at the County Fair, and he had a still-breathing corpse in the trunk. — Nicole Castle

... is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change? — Jean-Francois Lyotard

We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes. — Varlam Shalamov

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. — Washington Irving

This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs — Peter Costello