Pinfold Wine Quotes & Sayings

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension. — Wes Jackson

His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability. — Jules Verne

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening. — Douglas Adams

I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable. — Janet Reno

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. — Justin Trudeau

But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it. — Janet Givens

You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. — Frederick Lenz

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government. — Dick Armey

Anyway, no girl wants to bang a guy in a banana hammock. I don't care if you're built like a brick shithouse and hung like a freaking horse - if you're wearing a man-thong? You look like a tool. — Emma Chase

I may not have been completely honest about that."
"You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified. — Leigh Bardugo

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity, the Ghost in the Machine. The declaration that we can change what we don't like about ourselves became a watchword of social science. But that only raises the question "Who or what is the 'we'?" If the "we" doing the remaking are just other hunks of matter in the biological world, then any malleability of behavior we discover would be cold comfort, because we, the molders, would be biologically constrained and therefore might not mold people, or allow ourselves to be molded, in the most socially salutary way. A ghost in the machine is the ultimate liberator of human will - including the will to change society - from mechanical causation. — Steven Pinker

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform. — Sarah Hall

I have no boobs whatsoever. On my wedding night my husband said, 'Let me help you with those buttons' and I told him, 'I'm completely naked'. — Joan Rivers

Don't you think it's sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls? — Cole Gibsen