Ilfracombe Statue Quotes & Sayings

She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked — Anonymous

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails. — Rebecca West

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. — Tillie Olsen

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth. — Steven Pinker