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Quotes by British Authors
"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather."
"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."
"It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed--the two bridemaids were duly inferior--her father gave her away--her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated--her aunt tried to cry-- and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."
"Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had."
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."
"To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable."
"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
"Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved - as a spiritual practice."
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer."
"I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."
"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
"Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better."
"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
"Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
"There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend."
"I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up."
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
"You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass."
"Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk."
"Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam."
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