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Quotes by English Authors
"The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men."
"But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf."
"Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it."
"I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts."
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
"I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm."
"One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that."
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
"Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend."
"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."
"The happy Warrior is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath wrought upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright."
"Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then-fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work- What are these Martians? What are we? I answered, clearing my throat."
"Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul."
"The world began in hazard and will end in it."
"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."
"I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home."
"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
"I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong."
"Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music."
"If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself " not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental."
"There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know."
"The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with."
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."
"What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones."
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