City of Sunderland - Official site. Council services and department information.
MAPPVA - The Multi Agency Panel for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults. Details of project, agencies involved, helpline and seminars.
Sunderland Youth Offending Service - Service provided by council, police, health service and probation officers to help young people. Details of services, projects and downloads.
Sunderland Housing Group - Large social landlord operating as a partnership with tenants in community regeneration and renovation projects. Includes news, jobs, advice for tenants, projects descriptions and newsletter.
Community of Interest - Collection of microsites aimed at various residential and business communities. Includes resources for minority groups such as children and refugees as well as advice for small businesses.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple City of Sunderland I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud City of Sunderland
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart City of Sunderland Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch City of Sunderland
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb City of Sunderland In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb City of Sunderland
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell City of Sunderland "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday City of Sunderland
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein City of Sunderland When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla City of Sunderland
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett City of Sunderland The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith City of Sunderland
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) City of Sunderland Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H City of Sunderland
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I City of Sunderland My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt City of Sunderland "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( City of Sunderland
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz City of Sunderland Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) City of Sunderland
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson City of Sunderland "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx City of Sunderland
