Rissington Quotes & Sayings

someone in Tunis. Halabi — Jamie Fredric

As the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came. — Daphne Du Maurier

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught. — Seneca The Younger

In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul? — Wernher Von Braun

The sickest people that I have met in the workplace are working with high powered electrical utility solar photovoltaics (PV). — Steven Magee

My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved. — Jaron Lanier

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. — Eli Pariser

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one. — Andre Geim

Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow. — E. M. Forster

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you believed in the "mediocrity of the masses," as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could achieve. — Daniel H. Pink

According to her, all her kids have done quite well except me, — Markus Zusak

By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind. — Leo Strauss

When Tucker glanced in Becca's direction and saw her watching, he smiled and winked. That one move, just a wink, made her knees go weak. She swallowed hard and knew with complete certainty, she was going to do it - she was going to spend the night with him. — Cat Johnson

Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt? — Ashlee Simpson