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Quotes by British Authors
"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."
"Grace and beauty originates from within. It is the spirit's light that glows out and make every-thing beautiful."
"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."
"He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?"
"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."
"Grasp the opportunity to make each day exceptional."
"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."
"If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on."
"George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!"
"Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future."
"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."
"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
"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."
"God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is."
"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."
"Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue."
"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
"Life isn't long enough for love and art."
"Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth."
"He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave."
"Like the unfolding of a rose, allow your authentic self to grow, bloom and emerge.... shine in your radiance and In JOY all that you ARE... send your love out to all you touch... like a delicate perfume in the breeze..."
"I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely."
"We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed."
"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."
"Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration."
"You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it--all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition."
"Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again."
"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."
"Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within."
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
"It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me."
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