Faith Together in Leeds 11 - Information about the plans of a multi-faith partnership including Muslim organisations, Christian churches, and community groups, working for the benefit of the elderly in a S Leeds community.
Concord - Leeds Interfaith Fellowship - Concord is a group working to promote a dialogue between the different religious faiths in Leeds. Site includes programme of events, details of membership, contacts, etc.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Religion They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Religion
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Religion Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Religion
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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Religion We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Religion
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Religion "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Religion
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Religion The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Religion
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Religion Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Religion
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Religion When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Religion
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Religion 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Religion
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Religion A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Religion
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Religion "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Religion
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Religion I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Religion
