I love quotations and some of my favourites are below. I will add to them as I find more, but feel free to make suggestions!
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass..its about learning how to dance in the rain”
Anon
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams
“If you boil water and drop a frog in it – it jumps out immediately. However, if you put that frog in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it, the frog adapts its body temperature to that of the water until at 100 degrees centigrade it boils alive”
Charles Handy
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and tired whereas the pig likes it.
many people! George Bernard Shaw, Cyrus Ching and Creighton Abrams.
“Statistically 6 out of 7 dwarves are not happy”
Unattributed
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore”
Mark Twain
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Mark Twain
“Never put a sock in a toaster.”
Eddie Izzard
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names”.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
“Robin Hood and Nottingham, they go together like peaches and cream. They’re inseparable.”
John Paul Davis
How about a placard from the “Occupy Wall St” crowd that applies to all of us supporting sustainability
” Respect existence or expect resistance”
Yes very good. I heard today that Leicester had been twinned with New York. They are both 5 hours behind?
# Be modest, a lot was accomplished before you were born.
# if you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.
# Learn to listen, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
‘It’s not about doing something 100% better; it’s about doing 100 things 1% better’ – Clive Woodward via Will Greenwood
“There are two reasons anything gets done in this world…Money and power.
The governments and councils divide people by encouraging us to belong to certain sects, religeons, colours or sexual persuasions so they can rule over us and slyly remove our money like parasites.
They want us to be fighting and bickering amongst ourselves so they can sit back for an easy life. Divide and Rule.
When we render our many forms we must only decide one of two options British, or Not British. Then we will have two large groups to challenge the Totalitarian rules issued by these overbearing hypocrites.
They are meant to be civil servants, working for us,to do what we want, not rule over us.
We are really only here on this earth for two purposes, breeding and forming sociable communities.
We must look after and be friendly with one another and raise the children to be self sufficient.
Two simple jobs. But these Simple jobs stand out alone as the most difficult.
One answer could be if each of us tried our hardest to remember to treat one another better than ourselves to ensure our world is in a good order for the next generations. That way our actions would be reciprocated and everyone wins”