20 Quotes by Tom Phillips

for any bad reason. The car is there and the company is turning around.

It's fine the way it is. I don't need the government taxing me on my winnings.

(The) cost has increased, and the quality of service decreased.

In this particular case, since we're only talking about contributions, it might not be a matter of who is nonpartisan enough, but who is poor enough not to have made any contributions,

I'll respect him if he pulls his life together.

You can't escape a component of your life, but you can put it in a place where you're OK with it. You have to be in control (of your life). Not just let tragedy take you down. Good things will happen for you again.

That man-made climate change is real, and potentially an existential threat to many communities around the world and many aspects of civilisation, is so well established as a scientific fact by this point that it seems kind of dull to run over the evidence again.

Evolution gets results not by planning ahead, but rather by simply hurling a ridiculously large number of hungry, horny organisms at a dangerous and unforgiving world and seeing who fails least.

If instead of having wars, we just sent large groups of people to each other’s countries to drink loads of their wine and aimlessly wander around their towns on a regular basis, then the world would probably be a much, much happier place. Although now I’ve written that, it occurs to me that’s essentially what the EU is.