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Quotes by British Authors
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
"It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things - this is our perpetual illusion - is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky."
"The electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) industries are creating an increasingly high radiation environment for the human. This is comparable to the elevated radiation environment found at high altitudes and smart health researchers would be wise to contrast high altitude diseases to the epidemics of our time, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), and so on."
"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
"Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
"For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country."
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
"It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in."
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill."
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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