Quotes for All
Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come. Erma Bombeck
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice. Emmeline Pankhurst
…blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. […to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren’t worse, because they always can be!] Frithjof Schuon
It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn’t enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful – I will not be able to correct everyone’s mistakes before I depart. Daniel Finkelstein
Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt. Clint Eastwood
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing. Christopher Hitchens
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends. Christopher Hitchens
I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it’s taken a while for that realisation to happen. Christine Bottomley
Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we’re duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is An eye for an eye. Revenge policy; If you hit … Read more
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a ‘problem solver’. Cedric Price