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Quotes by British Authors
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."
"Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable."
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
"I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism."
"Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride."
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."
"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it."
"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
"Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It's not until you've seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sliced open, and known that they weren't ever getting back together again, and vomited your last two meals over the rocks . . . it's not until then that you understand the business of swords properly and, if you're a sensible man you vow to have nothing to do with it ever again."
"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
"But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors."
"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."
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