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Quotes by British Authors
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"
"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."
"Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it's own merry way at it's own pace. But if you do then you " and life " will be the richer for you being here."
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
"I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years."
"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."
"Do not fear the ghosts in this house; theyare the least of your worries.Personally I find the noises they make reassuring,The creaks and footsteps in the night,their little tricks of hiding things,or moving them, I findendearing, not upsettling. It makes the placefeel so much more like a home.Inhabited."
"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation."
"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."
"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again."
"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
"When we are born our eyes open onto the world.When we learn the truth about the world we choose to close our eyes to the world around us.And when we die, we open our eyes for that last time to see that in our ignorance, we could have changed the world for all to see."
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless."
"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
"I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next."
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."
"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
"I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world."
"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
"Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."
"I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped."
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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