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Quotes by English Authors
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it."
"If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it."
"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."
"I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records."
"I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance."
"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."
"When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair."
"It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
"If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the giant. Stories with fiery serpents and leviathans and sermons in whirlwinds. Stories in which murderers are blinded on donkeys and become heroes. Stories with dens of lions and fiery furnaces and lone prophets laughing at kings and priests and demons. Stories with heads on platters. Stories with courage and crosses and redemption. Stories with resurrections."
"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."
"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."
"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."
"The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect."
"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."
"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand."
"I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now."
"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
"One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life."
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."
"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."
"'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens."
"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."
"To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat."
"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included."
"My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love."
"I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before."
"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
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