Succoured Quotes & Sayings

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes. — Saffron Burrows

We call them groundsharks."
Sanguine shook his head immediately. "That's a stupid name. Makes them sound like little shark fins slicing through the living room carpet."
"I wanted to call them razorworms," said Persephone.
"That's a damn sight better than groundsharks."
(Eyes of the Beholder) — Derek Landy

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination — H.G.Wells

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture. — Eli Roth

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people. — Tim Ryan

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place. — Bryant McGill

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man is compelled to compel beings to his control, and thus he becomes a slave of his will to control, a slave of his own rights. Individuals become so individualistic that they become nothing more than a lonely crowd. — Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive. — Lou Jiwei

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts. — Robert Brustein

When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, at least, let him be permitted to enjoy the fruit of his labour; let not his substance be ravaged from him by cruel imposts; let him not be discouraged from work, by finding all his labour inadequate to support his existence, let him not be driven into that idleness that will surely lead him on to crime: let him consider his present existence, without carrying his views to that which may attend him after his death: let his industry be excited; let his talents be rewarded; let him be rendered active, laborious, beneficent, and virtuous, in the world he inhabits; let it be shown to him that his actions are capable of having an influence over his fellow men, but not on those imaginary beings located in an ideal world. — Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience. — Rowan Williams

Stories of the Virgin being succoured by a friendly palm tree had actually been a Christian tradition for centuries, and seem in turn to have derived from a legend told by the pagan Greeks, was blithely ignored - as, of course, it was bound to be. — Tom Holland