Fortean Society Quotes & Sayings

Pain makes hens and poets cackle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. — Nick Hornby

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart. — Eoin Colfer

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry. — James MacDonald

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word. — David Nicholls

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are - to share ourselves more. — Mark Nepo

Just before I'd moved to New York, two historic events had occurred: The birth control pill had been invented, and the first Julia Child cookbook was published. As a result, everyone was having sex, and when the sex was over, you cooked something. — Nora Ephron

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. — Thomas Cochrane

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. — William Shakespeare

Only the donkey knows how weary it feels, all God cares about are humans, and not all humans, because some of them live like donkeys or worse, and God makes no effort to help them. — Jose Saramago