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Quotes by British Authors
"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"
"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."
"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."
"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."
"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."
"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent."
"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
"Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank."
"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."
"There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going."
"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."
"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."
"Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance."
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