Great Yarmouth Borough Council Quotes & Sayings

The main concept is that the mind and the body are separate, although interconnected entities. And while the body lasts for just one life, the mind, or stream of consciousness, is continuous; it is beginningless and endless. At — Comcast NBCUniversal

You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own. — John Calvin

Miracles come in all shapes and sizes. So, try not to have particular conditions, because doing so may very well prevent you from recognizing the biggest ones. — Charles F. Glassman

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation. — Tamsin Greig

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West. — Stephen Kinzer

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes. — Mekhi Phifer

Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside. — Arundhati Roy

My favorite chick was the tawny-colored Buff Orpington. She promised to one day be a bodacious plus-sized model of a chicken, wearing fluffy pantaloons under full feathery skirts and with as charming a personality as her appearance suggested. Predictably named Buffy, she didn't mind being handled and rather seemed to enjoy the company, clucking softly with a closed beak as I picked her up and stroked her silky feathers. — Lucie B. Amundsen

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better. — F Scott Fitzgerald

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. — Audrey Hepburn

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems, — Barack Obama

It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow. — Terry Pratchett

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. — John Mackey

In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like how to interest the local cops in actually doing their job, and how to protect a bike from a highly motivated thief, and when to bother rousting a drunk from your lawn furniture, and how to encourage feral cats to shit in somebody else's children's sandbox, and how to determine whether a public school sucked too much to bother trying to fix it. — Jonathan Franzen

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions. — Tariq Ramadan