Stollery Central Booking Quotes & Sayings

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings. — Dalai Lama

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect. — John Updike

One does not need a faith in God. Sufficient is a faith in created things, that enables one to move among objects in the conviction that they exist, persuaded of the irrefutable reality of this chair, this umbrella, this cigarette, this friendship. He who doubts himself is lost, just as someone scared of failure in love-making fails indeed. We are happy in the company of people who make us feel the unquestionable presence of the world, just as the body of the beloved gives us the certainty of those shoulders, that bosom, that curve of the hips, the surge of these as incontestable as the sea. And one who is in despair, we are taught by Singer, can act as though he believed: faith will come afterwards. — Claudio Magris

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place. — Charles Kennedy

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people. — Alicia Keys

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with. — Theo Rossi

I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given. — Fred Rogers

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me. — H.P. Lovecraft

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. — William Godwin

All the little duckies with their heads in the water
Heads in the water
All the little duckies with their heads in the water
Oh, such sweet little duckies. — Ruta Sepetys

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season. — Roger Maris

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one. — Susan Sontag

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs. — Lewis Engel

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow. — Wilferd Peterson