Heffer Quotes & Sayings

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer

A life without a plan is a life out of control. — Sunday Adelaja

We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe. — Adam Riess

I want to co-produce again. — Jenifer Lewis

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better. — Simon Heffer

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. — Jacob Bronowski

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. — Simon Heffer

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle. — Simon Heffer

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it. — Rae Foley

I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands. — Simon Heffer

Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake. — Simon Heffer

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters. — Simon Heffer

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. — Simon Heffer

Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass. — Charlaine Harris

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did. — Tamera Alexander

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. — Joe Murray

One time, hey, in high school this girl told me, hey, its not you, its me.. Ofcourse its you, you dang HEFFER! — Si Robertson

This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths. — Simon Heffer