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Quotes by British Authors
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."
"We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals." If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute."
"I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day."
"Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie-they see nothing wrong with it."
"In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals."
"Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard."
"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
"Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon."
"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."
"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."
"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."
"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."
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
"I love science fiction - always have."
"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."
"When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word."
"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."
"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."
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