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Quotes by British Authors
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
"Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge)Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.Yes, we are going to die, / let's not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now. Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate."
"Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story."
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"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."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you."
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call 'God's birds' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"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. "
"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."
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that " but you are the only you."
"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."
"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."
"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
"Water - a thoroughly underrated drink."
"Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked."
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness."
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
"Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world."
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
"My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors."
"Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That's only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds " as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it."
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