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Quotes by British Authors
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
"They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women."
"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
"Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that."
"That's what it's all about. We are here to walk each other home. Home to our true self ~ which is love. How we treat our self and how we have the opportunity to make others feel good about them selves, to see and bring the goodness out of them is what grows us to become a more beautiful person also."
"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory."
"But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five."
"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
"You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it."
"Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government."
"I have set out to change the language of the international system."
"Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?"
"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
"Grasp the opportunity to make each day exceptional."
"To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence."
"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans."
"We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to."
"We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."
"Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future."
"Time is not something to be killed. Doing so suffocates a part of us, writing off part of our life that could, or rather should, be spent doing something meaningful."
"Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing."
"She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
"Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity."
"Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality, utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life."
"She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate."
"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
"My philosophical heart will not judge thee."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men with stubble and intense eyes. You fall under their spell and believe anything they say."
"Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity."
"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."
"Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever. You know I was proud of my strength: but what is it now, when I must give it over to foreign guidance, as a child does its weakness? Of late, Jane - only - only of late - I began to see and acknowledge the hand of God in my doom. I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. I began to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere."
"Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied."
"If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf."
"Believe in the potential of obtaining or achieving a desire."
"The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves."
"A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem."
"Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue."
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