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Quotes by English Authors
"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
"At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova."
"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."
"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
"Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls."
"Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth."
"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite."
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck."
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
"I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter."
"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you."
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."
"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."
"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment."
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."
"If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets."
"I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go."
"Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
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