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Quotes by English Authors
"Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible."
"Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
"I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can."
"I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22."
"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
"Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock."
"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt."
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
"Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys."
"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.''The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.''The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all."
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it."
"A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces."
"If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?"
"But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry."
"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."
"For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot."
"She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren't kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts."
"The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs."
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
"As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole."
"I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it."
"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
"Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength."
"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."
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