Sproston Parish Council Quotes & Sayings

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins

For her, an orgasm felt more like a sneeze, certainly not the earthquake her friends described, and nowhere close to the shrieks of pleasure from the apartment next door. What would that feel like? To be so overwhelmed as to actually scream? — Cherise Sinclair

Does the root of a flower influence the flower as something fundamentally different from it? No, surely the root and the flower are one process, and like your head and your feet it all goes together. In that sense then, the universe, and what you or I do, all goes together, and so that picture of the universe is really a picture of you. — Alan W. Watts

Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do. — Ren Ng

Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson

I go to see a Greater Perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If we are to succeed in the great task before us we must adopt a humbler attitude towards the elementary things of life than that which is implied in our frequent boasting about our so-called 'Conquest of Nature.' We have put ourselves on a pinnacle in the pride of an imagined conquest. But we cannot separate ourselves from nature if we would... There can be no quarrel between ourselves and nature any more than there can be a quarrel between a man's head and his feet. If such a quarrel is invented, it is the man who suffers, including both his head and his feet... We have come to regard nature as something primitive, terrible, and squalid. If she is so, it is we who have made her so. — Walter Ernest Christopher James

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. — Peter Esterhazy

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? — Marilyn Monroe