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Quotes by British Authors
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"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."
"War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact."
"Your choices can only be limited by your mind."
"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."
"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
"And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know."
"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."
"It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others."
"Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue."
"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness."
"Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love."
"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it."
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
"_____________________I'm lost for words."
"Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side."
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
"Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms."
"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."
"Only what you willingly accept can continue to be part of your life."
"It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor should we, because it does! It does matter! And the people who genuinely believe it doesn't tend to be the very people who ought to care most what other people think of them, because what the other people are thinking is, 'No, actually, I don't think the Chinese are "up to something,"' or, 'You should use mouthwash,' or, 'Your mania for the collective socialization of agriculture will surely cause the deaths of millions,' or, 'Forty cats is too many cats."
"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."
"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate."
"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
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