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Quotes by British Authors
"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done to say it. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time."
"We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer."
"He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals."
"It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him."
"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."
"Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity."
"Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love."
"Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present."
"And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
"Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day."
"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves."
"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
"Communication is the breath or death of any relationship."
"All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction."
"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"
"It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor should we, because it does! It does matter! And the people who genuinely believe it doesn't tend to be the very people who ought to care most what other people think of them, because what the other people are thinking is, 'No, actually, I don't think the Chinese are "up to something,"' or, 'You should use mouthwash,' or, 'Your mania for the collective socialization of agriculture will surely cause the deaths of millions,' or, 'Forty cats is too many cats."
"I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself."
"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
"I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?"
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