Raymond Tallis Quotes

#1. Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.

Cesare Beccaria

#2. I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER

Colleen Hoover

#3. There is, in part, the glamour of science, which, since it is so spectacularly and usefully right over so many things, is often given authority where it has none.

Raymond Tallis

#4. We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful.

Raymond Tallis

#5. But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Colin Hay

#7. Lady Ligeia," he began again, "is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love."
"Oh, yes. Lovely" Isobel blanched. "I guess the other chick didn't mind at all?

Kelly Creagh

#8. When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.

Jon Oringer

#9. When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

Bob Dylan

#10. Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.

Louis C.K.

#11. Downstream is always someone else's up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Francisco Goya

#13. The extent of neuromanic imperialism is astounding.

Raymond Tallis

#14. I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

Ariel Pink

#15. I'm a man. I don't do conversation well, but I do my best to show you every day what you mean to me. If I'm not doin' that right, you need to tell me. I'll do better. But don't fuckin' question how I feel about you. I feel nothing unless I'm with you. You give me life.

Norma Jeanne Karlsson

#16. I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#17. Surroundedness does not come free along with, say, a membrane marking the boundary between the organism and the rest of the material world any more than it comes free with an entity such as a pebble that has a continuous surface marking its limits.

Raymond Tallis

#18. Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Raymond Tallis

#19. Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Charlaine Harris

#20. Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

Raymond Tallis