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It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that go on in their community how to avoid feeling.


Elizabeth Fry

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STEPHEN FRY Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
STEPHEN FRY What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
CHRISTOPHER FRY When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got h...
HAYDEN FRY Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubho...
DAVID FRY I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
CHRISTOPHER FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
CHRISTOPHER FRY I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which...
STEPHEN FRY I played in the chapel on Sundays, then moved on to polishing corridors.
STEPHEN FRY The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can
CHRISTOPHER FRY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
JEFFREY FRY What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.
JEFFREY FRY Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY