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Quotes by British Authors
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
"I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years."
"We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there)."
"A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode,but you just don't know when."
"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."
"We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering, everything else is humbug."
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven."
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."
"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
"We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY."
"The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy pleasure and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun and some ecstasy ... Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but he will not encourage us to mistake them for home."
"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword."
"Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property."
"Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money."
"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."
"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them."
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