Shawcross Bank Quotes

#1. I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Liam Neeson

#2. We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.

Gene Wolfe

#3. [I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

Thomas Struth

#4. I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Hector Hugh Munro

#5. Who amongst us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country?

Graham Greene

#6. They were Catholic, my lovers,
All in an access of crossing themselves,
Particularly their fingers
Behind their suspendered backs
And that was the women.

Shay Caroline

#7. I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Wilbur Ross

#8. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#9. Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. I really wanted to work and become independent.

Victoria Abril