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Quotes by English Authors
"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."
"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water."
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
"Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess."
"It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there."
"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
"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."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."
"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."
"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
"Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is."
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."
"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."
"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."
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