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Quotes by British Authors
"Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win."
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
"If you forget who you've become remember who you are."
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
"I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed."
"If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING."
"It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be."
"When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant."
"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
"Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength."
"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life."
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
"Life has a way of forcing us to grow in one way or another, constantly. We sometimes try to stem the growth by being unbending..yet, look what happens to the branches of a tree, if they refuse to bend to whims of the weather? They snap and break...If one starts to learn to be flexible and not resist life.... one steps into the kind of Mastery that is able to walk on the waters of time."
"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
"You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you."
"Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it."
"I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment."
"The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally."
"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
"My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind."
"But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us."
"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
"A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do."
"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."
"Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing."
"There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. Underneath the layers of any fears is always a call 4 more love. Either from your own soul, your-self to BE reflected in your own world. Outer appearance means nothing as it is only the LIGHT with-IN 1's heart that matters, no matter WHO it IS."
"I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe."
"Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow," Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet."
"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested."
"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."
"While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever."
"In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood that when you gave an order you gave it as comrade to comrade and not as superior to inferior. There were officers and NCOs, but there was no military rank in the ordinary sense; not titles, no badges, no heel-clicking and saluting. They had attempted to produce within the militias a sort of temporary working model of the classless society."
"I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent."
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