Pocklington Arts Quotes & Sayings

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. — George Gaylord Simpson

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. — Hal Borland

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie. — Billy Carter

The sensation of "I" as a lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful and commonsensical, and so fundamental to our modes of speech and thought, to our laws and social institutions, that we cannot experience selfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe. I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time - a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and even absurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in the whole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclear fields in my body. — Alan W. Watts

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth

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ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did. — Markus Zusak

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew. — Graham Greene

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me. — George Harrison

I sensed a familiar presence behind me. A hand brushed my hair back, and Ranger leaned in to me and kissed me on the nape of my neck. — Janet Evanovich

Don't run from your pain - run into your pain. — Bryant McGill

The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands. — Carolyn Forche

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God. — Rabindranath Tagore