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Quotes by English Authors
"I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often."
"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."
"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
"Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them."
"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."
"A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected."
"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant."
"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."
"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."
"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."
"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
"We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict."
"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute."
"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
"Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum."
"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."
"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music."
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