Sherington Primary Quotes & Sayings

Did they not find a connection between their obscene wealth and the obscene poverty all around them? Perhaps it was too much to suggest the fault was theirs alone. The upper class was too goddamn stupid to be blamed, frankly. But how could they do nothing? How could they look upon their fellow creatures suffering and do absolutely nothing? — Sunil Yapa

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But perhaps nothing speaks more clearly for the absurdities of English pronunciation than that the word for the study of pronunciation in English, orthoepy, can itself be pronounced two ways. — Bill Bryson

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once. — Dick Enberg

A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism ... are so compelling.
... we love them because they're the closest thing we have to material evidence of an objective moral order
or, to put it another way, they're the closest thing we have to proof of the existence of God. They seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most
things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism
aren't just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they're real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or fable. — Gwen Cooper

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else ... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age. — Christopher Bollen

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence. — Dambisa Moyo