Weathercock Quotes

#1. O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

William Shakespeare

#2. But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Aldous Huxley

#3. At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

Horace

#4. What's happening, Dad?" "Shut up and row! Get us away from it!" "Is it a monster, Dad?" "It's worse than a monster, son!" shouted Solid, as the oars bit into the water. The thing was quite high now, standing on some kind of tower ... "What is it, Dad! What is it?" "It's a damned weathercock!

Terry Pratchett

#5. The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

Tony Benn

#6. Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Nirmala Srivastava

#8. All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#9. I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

Emmanuel Petit

#10. If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#11. Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

#12. Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#13. God's will and desire - His pleasure - is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

Myles Munroe

#14. I think I *was* the lightning.

Amy Leigh Strickland

#15. All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks ... When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

Rashad Evans

#16. Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no on any pain but herself.
- Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen

#17. She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.

H.G.Wells