Throsby Barclays Quotes

#1. It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

Sue Grafton

#2. Don't believe anything I've told you - merely because I said it.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Aleister Crowley

#4. Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Peter Elbow

#5. The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Voltaire

#6. True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

John Shelby Spong

#7. I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort.

Charles Bukowski

#8. You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger.

Chuck Wendig

#9. The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#10. Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair - all that work and no progress.

DiAnn Mills

#11. I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

Dominic Cooper