"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."

-- Arthur Peacocke

#Catholic Quotes #Evolution Quotes #Proposal Quotes

“Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”
“One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.”
“The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing”
“When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.”
“No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.”

Source : Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.
“Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.”

Source : "Inside Job". Documentary, Crime, www.imdb.com. 2010.
“Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.”

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