Supporting Community Involvement in Sidley - Based at the Sidley Community Centre, SCA promotes social inclusion through a number of community groups and projects - such asa young people's centre, a toy library, after school clubs, a playgroup, and an IT training centre.
Gregory Barker MP - Member for the local constituency. Includes profile, biography, speeches and newsletters.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Society and Culture
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Society and Culture
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Society and Culture
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Society and Culture "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Society and Culture Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
