Asylum Aid - Charity providing advice and legal representation to asylum-seekers and refugees. Campaigns for fair treatment.
The Refugee Council - Organisation that helps refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Campaigns for 'an open mind policy, not an open door policy'.
The Refugee Survival Trust - Provides small grant support to refugee families. Details of patrons, trustees, activities and links. Operates in Scotland.
Scottish Refugee Council - Offers advice, information and assistance to asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland. Details of events, publications, news, jobs and volunteering.
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Refugees A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Refugees
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Refugees It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Refugees
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Refugees The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Refugees
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "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) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Refugees Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Refugees
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Refugees It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Refugees
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Refugees Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Refugees
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Refugees There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Refugees
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "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 Refugees It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Refugees
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Refugees That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Refugees
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Refugees "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Refugees
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Refugees "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Refugees
