A thought for a Sunday

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

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A thought for a Sunday

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A thought for a Sunday

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

Alice Walker (b. 1944)


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A thought for a Sunday

"People get the wrong idea. If you're a scientist the two most exciting things you can be are wrong or confused, because that means there's a lot left to learn, and we are living in very exciting times. We're just like the early map makers in a sense. Just a lifetime ago we knew of one galaxy in the entire universe, now we know there are 400 billion galaxies. In a single human lifetime our picture of the universe has changed so much it's not surprising that we are continually surprised".


Lawrence M. Krauss (b. 1954)
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A thought for a Sunday

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."


Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (121-180 CE) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"In our more diverse and secular society, the place of religion has come to be a matter of lively discussion. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue and that the wellbeing and prosperity of the nation depend on the contribution of individuals and groups of all faiths and none."

Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others".


Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water".


John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits".


Hannah More (1745 – 1833) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me".

John Fowles (1926 – 2005) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth".

Umberto Eco (b. 1932) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing".

Emo Philips (b. 1956) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy".

George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing".

Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine".


Anthony J. D'Angelo (b. 1972?) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully".

Graham Greene (1904 – 1991) Grow into these trousers... >>

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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure".

A. E. Housman (1859 – 1936) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me".

Stephen Fry (b. 1957) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition".


Alvin Toffler (b. 1928) Grow into these trousers... >>

A thought for a Sunday

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody".


Bill Cosby (b. 1937) Grow into these trousers... >>