Peter Ratcliffe Quotes & Sayings

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation. — Martin Rees

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. — Mother Teresa

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

The problem with tying yourself to a cripple is that it doesn't make you stronger, it only makes you slower. — Billy Roper

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me. — Crystal Woods

Once upon a time.. you were the happiest person ... and then you fell in love ... — Himmilicious

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general appelation of Rooks. Here are all the Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, Linnen-lifters, who are like so many Jakes, Privies, Houses of Office, Ordures, Excrements, Easments and piles of Sir-reverence: the whores of Ratcliffe High-way smell of Tarpaulin and stinking Cod from their continuall Traffick with seamen's Breeches. There are other such wretched Objects about these ruined Lanes, all of them lamentable Instances of Vengeance. And it is not strange (as some think) how they will haunt the same Districts and will not leave off their Crimes until they are apprehended, for these Streets are their Theatre. Theft, Whoredom and Homicide peep out of the very Windows of their Souls; Lying, Perjury, Fraud, Impudence and Misery are stamped upon their very Countenances as now they walk within the Shaddowe of my Church. — Peter Ackroyd

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do. — Kate Bush

Everyone is useful for specific task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife. — Greg Graffin

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing. — Peter Sloterdijk

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities. — Swami Vivekananda

I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment. — Kristina Schroder

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur