The Guardian Coast Guard Quotes & Sayings

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. — Donald L. Hicks

There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs.
That seemed strange to us, and unjust. [...] But people think we spread diseases, and I suppose possibly we do, though never intentionally, and surely we never spread as many diseases as people themselves do. — Robert C. O'Brien

When the soul is solidly rooted in ... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish. — John Cassian

Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case. — Sinead O'Connor

I wasn't like most girls. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants. — Michel Houellebecq

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things. — Ross Douthat

A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. — Paul Theroux

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Part of being made in God's image is having a need to be in relationship. — Henry Cloud

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut. — Lawrence Lessig

Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. — Don Chipp