Gwennap Parish Council Quotes

#1. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Edmund White

#3. A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

#4. It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin

#5. There: the white butterfly has crossed the whole valley, and from the reader's book has flown here, to light on the page I am writing.

Italo Calvino

#6. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Rene Dubos

#7. As we wisely gain knowledge through the everyday stuff, and grapple with the development of our discernment through everyday stuff, we'll use what we have to our advantage in making better decisions. (41)

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. Okay, baby?
Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me.

Josh Lanyon

#9. Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#10. I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

Betty Friedan