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Quotes by British Authors
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
"God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return."
"When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications."
"There's little growth and progression without learning and reflection."
"There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere-it doesn't all get used up at once. "I may still be hung over, sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences."
"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
"Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence."
"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."
"The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be."
"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
"So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."
"You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You need not guess, for I will tell you; I am a great coward... If I knew any way of escape I would crawl through sewers to find it. But what is the good of telling you about my feelings? You know them already; they are the same as yours. I am not arguing that pain is not painful. Pain hurts. That is what the word means. I am only trying to show that the old Christian doctrine of being made 'perfect through suffering' is not incredible. To prove it palatable is beyond my design."
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."
"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense."
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
"If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures."
"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
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