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Quotes by British Authors
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
"I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you."
"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."
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
"It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies."
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."
"The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you."
"You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'."
"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
"We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs."
"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want."
"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."
"In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad."
"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
"All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s."
"If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid."
"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."
"I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition."
"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."
"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
"Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton."
"Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart."
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
"There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
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