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Quotes by British Authors
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
"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."
"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them."
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly."
"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!"
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."
"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
"Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story."
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
"I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play."
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."
"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
"He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
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