Victim Support - Directory of local victim support schemes with information on the organisation's history and philosophy. Details of how to volunteer and support and links to other resources.
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Victims We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Victims
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Victims What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Victims
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Victims Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Victims
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Victims They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Victims
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Victims If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Victims
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Victims I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Victims
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Man and wife make one fool. 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 Victims We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Victims
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Victims We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Victims
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Victims The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Victims
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Victims "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Victims
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Victims Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Victims
