The Leeds Initiative - A public, private and community partnership for Leeds, led by the City Council. Includes information on strategy and partnership groups, and their activities.
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Government "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Government
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Government Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Government
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Government The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Government
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Government No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Government
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Government If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Government
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Government Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Government
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Government If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Government Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Government
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Government It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Government
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Government The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Government
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Government All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Government
