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Quotes by British Authors
"It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe."
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
"The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics."
"What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
"Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy."
"Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way."
"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."
"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
"When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you."
"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
"Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal."
"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
"The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world."
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
"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."
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."
"Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."
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