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Quotes by British Authors
"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them."
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"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?"
"All of creation expands and evolves."
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
"Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion."
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
"He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes."
"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
"Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it's own merry way at it's own pace. But if you do then you " and life " will be the richer for you being here."
"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."
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
"_____________________I'm lost for words."
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
"Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering."
"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."
"They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad."
"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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