Piggy's Spectacles Quotes & Sayings

Naturalness?' I said, loudly. 'This lot'll tell you anything is natural; they'll tell you greed and hate and jealousy and paranoia and unthinking religious awe and fear of God and hating anybody who's another colour or thinks different is natural. Hating blacks or hating whites or hating women or hating men or hating gays; that's natural. Dog-eat-dog, looking out for number one, no lame ducks . . . Shit, they're so convinced about what's natural it's the more sophisticated ones that'll tell you suffering and evil are natural and necessary because otherwise you can't have pleasure and goodness. They'll tell you any one of their rotten stupid systems is the natural and right one, the one true way; what's natural to them is whatever they can use to fight their own grimy corner and fuck everybody else. They're no more natural than us than an amoeba is more natural than them just because it's cruder. — Iain M. Banks

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. — Sathya Sai Baba

A man must be very inert to have no character at all. — Jean De La Bruyere

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective. — John Cleese

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. — Michael Faraday

May I consent to and delight in thy law after the inner man, never complain over the strictness of thy demands, but mourn over my want of conformity to them; never question thy commandments, but esteem them to be right. By thy spirit within me, may my practice spring from principle, and my dispositions be conformable with duty. — Arthur Bennett

I looked to Demi. "Save him," I said, half command, half plea. She nodded. "I will," she said, and started playing again. This — Seanan McGuire

Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves. — Marika McCoola