Wattleton Road Quotes & Sayings

Oh, make no mistake. I am no callow, ardent youth. I am an elderly man, broken in health and body, and soon to die. I am a scientist and a philosopher. I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is - her weaknesses and meannesses and immodesties and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet and her eyes that have never seen the stars. But - and the everlasting, irrefragable fact remains: Her feet are beautiful, her eyes are beautiful, her arms and breasts are paradise, her charm is potent beyond all charm that has ever dazzled man; and, as the pole willy nilly draws the needle, just so, willy nilly, does she draw man. — Jack London

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. — Taslima Nasrin

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. — Stanislav Grof

I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland. — Debasish Mridha

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day - not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow. — Rowan Williams

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier

Aren't you training a man who could become your most dangerous competitor?"
"That's the only sort of men I like to hire. Dagny, have you lived too long among the looters? Have you come to think that one man's ability is a threat to another?"
"Oh no! But I thought I was almost the only one left who didn't think that. — Ayn Rand

But love's not just the drug; it's also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the highs look divine, and I envy the users. But when the side effects kick in - jealousy, the rages, grief, I think, Count me out. Elizabethans equated romantic love with insanity. Buddhists view it as a brat throwing a tantrum at the picnic of the calm mind. — David Mitchell

You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore — Arthur Miller

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. — Oscar Wilde

'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job. — David Schwimmer

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. — Tsugumi Ohba

If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults — Chelsea Fine

No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage. — Jenny Lawson