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Quotes by British Authors
"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
"The battered woman-for she wore a skirt-with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love-love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over."
"If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self."
"It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child."
"The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!"
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."
"Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope."
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being 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."
"What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us."
"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."
"People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not."
"I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment."
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
"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."
"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
"Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years."
"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."
"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."
"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours."
"Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?"
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"Do not delude yourself, tomorrow is not guaranteed; and even if good fortune brings you your tomorrow, there is no guarantee those you love will be a part of it. Do not squander your precious, limited time. Value what love you have in your life - nothing is more valuable. Make it known to those who matter."
"Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open."
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