Presgrave Road Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only to easy to imagine ... — Terry Pratchett

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well. — Pete Rose

There's a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called "Is That
Your True Rejection?", and it works like this: Before you stake your
argument on a point, ask yourself in advance what you would say if that
point were decisively refuted. Would you relinquish your previous
conclusion? Would you actually change your mind? If not, maybe that point
isn't really the key issue. You should search instead for a sufficiently
important point, or collection of points, such that you would change your
mind about the conclusion if you changed your mind about the arguments.
It is, in our patois, "logically rude," to ask someone else to painstakingly
refute points you don't really care about yourself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter. — Boris Pasternak

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

You young people are syphoning the anointing out of me. Syphoning it ... — Benny Hinn

Is not the light of day a wondrous thing? It banishes all fears and worries of the previous night. — Brian Jacques

Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs — Malala Yousafzai

No force in this world can stop the work of God. — Thomas S. Monson

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna

Private Zombie, you are a disgrace to the species. I've hacked up lugies tougher than you. You make me think the enemy was right about the human race. You should be ground up for slop and passed out a hog's shithole! Well, what are you waiting for, you stinking bag of regurgitated puke, an effing invitation? — Rick Yancey

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese. — J. Paul Getty

I like hats that make the heart beat faster. — Philip Treacy