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Quotes by British Authors
"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
"As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself."
"There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes."
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
"With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about."
"She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time."
"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
"I don't think that I've been in love as suchAlthough I liked a few folk pretty wellLove must be vaster than my smiles or touchfor brave men died and empires rose and fellFor love, girls follow boys to foreign landsand men have followed women into hellIn plays and poems someone understandsthere's something makes us more than blood and boneand more than biological demands For me love's like the wind, unseen, unknownI see the trees are bending where it's beenI know that it leaves wreckage where it's blownI really don't know what "I love you" meansI think it means "don't leave me here alone."
"Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."
"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term."
"Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left."
"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
"There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double."
"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion."
"In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations."
"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."
"Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental."
"The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target."
"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man."
"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
"Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse."
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
"I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning, I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry."
"Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?"
"Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained."
"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
"Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there."
"I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle."
"Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me."
"Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot."
"It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle."
"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
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