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Quotes by British Authors
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
"I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me."
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
"Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did."
"There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on."
"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."
"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them."
"There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend."
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
"You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns."
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
"Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
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