Shoeburyness Hotel Quotes & Sayings

It takes less work to succeed than to fail. — W. Clement Stone

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. — Patricia Highsmith

The geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, — H.P. Lovecraft

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. — Anna Chennault

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. — Oscar Wilde

The human who uses this note can go neither to heaven nor hell. — Tsugumi Ohba

For instance, Objectivists will often hear a question such as: "What will be done about the poor or the handicapped in a free society?" The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are "their brothers' keepers" and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others. The questioner is ignoring or evading the basic premises of Objectivist ethics and is attempting to switch the discussion onto his own collectivist base. Observe that he does not ask: "Should anything be done?" but: "What will be done?" - as if the collectivist premise had been tacitly accepted and all that remains is a discussion of the means to implement it. Once, when Barbara Branden was asked by a student: "What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?" - she answered: "If you want to help them, you will not be stopped. — Anonymous

Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. — George R R Martin

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight. — Wang Anyi

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy." — Ram Dass

It is time to give ourselves to the Master and allow Him to lead us into fruitful fields where we can enrich a world filled with darkness and misery. Each of us, no matter who we are, no matter where we serve, must arise and make the most of each opportunity that comes. — Mary Ellen W. Smoot

No whereto in the absence of space. — Toba Beta