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Quotes by British Authors
"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."
"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
"When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?"
"Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else's is unhygienic."
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light."
"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
"War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days."
"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
"Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels."
"God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is."
"On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen."
"Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?"
"Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful."
"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
"5 words of advice to reduce stress - 'Connect with your Soul's power' or 'Change your reality through Coaching'."
"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why."
"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?"
"He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like."
"It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology."
"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
"Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared."
"Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present."
"Lets Rock Cancer's World."
"Pink colors my world red!"
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
"I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."
"Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want."
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