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Quotes by British Authors
"Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France."
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all."
"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
"Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds."
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."
"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."
"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
"When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27."
"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."
"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics."
"If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job."
"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
"Enjoy the contented silence."
"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."
"Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper."
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production."
"Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific."
"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
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