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Quotes by British Authors
"We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object."
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
"The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose."
"I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut."
"Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood."
"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."
"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."
"Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?"
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'"
"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
"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."
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
"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 study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
"What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for."
"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
"Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open."
"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved."
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
"Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!"
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