Covenant Hall - Elim Pentecostal Church. Statement of faith, history, staff, schedule of services and activities, contact details are included.
Stafford District Voluntary Services - Provides support to the voluntary sector and those wanting to access local voluntary organisations. Includes details of services, membership, and contact information.
Jane Burton Consultancy - Offers clairvoyant readings using Tarot, numerology and Astrological House Transits. Charts, remedies, and spellcraft are also covered.
Stafford Borough Heritage Group - Umbrella group for local societies for local heritage. Includes news, diary dates and group listings.
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Society and Culture
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Society and Culture Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Society and Culture
