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Quotes by British Authors
"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."
"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."
"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat."
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep."
"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."
"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."
"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
"Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are."
"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk."
"As you embrace Christmas, you embrace the magnitude of your life's journey & purpose."
"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
"Would a rose still be a rose without its thorns? We need to embrace both our Light as well as our Dark side, and to let them come out to play to become whole, with out them or denying them and not admitting, we are denying the most important things and aspects in our life. Every side of us helps protect and teach us."
"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."
"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
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