John Churton Collins Quotes

“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.”

“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.”

“Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.”

“Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.”

“The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.”

“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the best of the argument, so far as the possible materiality of the soul goes; and that in this battle the Goliath of Freethinking overcame the champion of what was considered orthodoxy.”

“Susan Margaret Collins was born on December 7, 1952 in Caribou, Maine and is presently the senior United States Senator from Maine. Senator Collins has served in the Senate since 1997 and chaired the Senate Committee on Homeland Security from 2003 to 2007. She now is the Chairwoman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Collins is a graduate of St. Lawrence University, a liberal arts college, in Canton, New York. Considered a moderate Republican, she became the only Republican in the U.S. Senate currently representing a state in New England. Her vote was one of three republican votes in the Senate that helped to defeat a bill designed to destroy the Affordable Health Care Program presently in effect. John McCain's heroic stand only mattered because Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski bravely stood by him! It was their courage that saved health care for approximately 22 million people.”

“And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air”

“Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”

“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”

“Today I asked Chloe to be my girlfriend,and she agreed. I sank my teeth into her neck and drank from her jugular in the library at lunchtime. She's agreed to join me as a vampire and she's moving in next week.April Fool!”