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Quotes by British Authors
"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."
"If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass."
"I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that."
"I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love."
"I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong."
"I don't want to sacrifice myself for something. I don't want do DIE for something. I don't even want to walk in the rain up a hill in a skirt that's sticking to my thighs for something. I want to live for something instead- as men do. I want to have fun. The most fun ever. I want to start partying like it's 1999, nine years early. I want a rapturous quest, I want to sacrifice myself to glee, I want to make the world better in some way."
"If you do not use clean language in your NAPS the negative words can be literally taken as part of the NAPS, and then you wonder why your NAPS has gone adrift, or that it only partly worked for you."
"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age."
"But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
"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."
"Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries."
"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
"The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point."
"I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year."
"Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love."
"It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology."
"The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as safe in a well ventilated environment at sea level may be a toxic gas in an indoor environment at high altitude."
"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."
"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people."
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
"If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion."
"Pink colors my world red!"
"Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?"
"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
"We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!"
"I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real."
"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
"Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad."
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