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Quotes by British Authors
"We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply 'stop'."
"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
"Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man's going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home."
"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."
"Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part."
"The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite."
"So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out."
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
"Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities."
"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
"We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed."
"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."
"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal."
"I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about."
"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time."
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New."
"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
"Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!"
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."
"I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!"
"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there wil always be a place for them."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
"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."
"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."
"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
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