Flinthill Quotes & Sayings

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. — Lucy Grealy

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality. — Joseph Addison

I have a past of making a fool of myself. — Jed S. Rakoff

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. — Francis Bacon

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time — Michel Foucault

There were rats in it, but Fyodor Pavlovich was not altogether angry with them: — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are making the following improvements to the library experience on your Kindle: — Anonymous

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. — Jonathan Swift

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity. — Jesse L. Martin

He glanced first at me, and then at his devastated flowerbed; all plowed up and butchered, like a Ripper victim- like Pearly Poll, lying gutted in Hanway Street, Spitalfields. — Russell Brand

Each day he lugged
a hunk of something precious
over to his boredom
and once or twice a week
when he was granted
the tiny grace of distance
he perceived that he laboured
as his fathers did
on someone else's pyramid
Thoughts of rebellion
Thoughts of injustice
New Year's resolutions
The seduction of a woman
All these he engraved
numbly letter by letter
Walther PPK-S
Serial No. 115142
stolen from one slave by another — Leonard Cohen

As for you, Man, you will be a naked tool all your life, though a user of tools. You will look like an embryo till they bury you, but all the others will be embryos before your might. Eternally undeveloped, you will always remain potential in Our image, able to see some of Our sorrows and to feel some of Our joys. We are partly sorry for you, Man, but partly hopeful. Run along then, and do your best. — T.H. White