Thomas Horsfall Famous Quotes & Sayings

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations. — Rafael Sabatini

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. — Maurice Strong

What I did, anybody can do. — Weegee

I never came into life with any favours or privileges. — Ken Livingstone

The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry out the destiny of humanity, the man-human and the woman-human each have to fulfill what they are and at the same time realize the unity that they constitute. — Luce Irigaray

I want my narre to mean me. — Mark Haddon

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. — Junot Diaz

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. — L.M. Montgomery

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings
artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers
to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. — Tom Robbins

You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away. — Ruth Ozeki