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Quotes by English Authors
"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other."
"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
"What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed."
"If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do."
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
"It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape."
"I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new."
"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."
"When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous."
"Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
"The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature."
"Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one."
"A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly."
"Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks."
"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."
"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
"In the chamber of deathI see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullnessOne might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then in the presence of her corpse. It asserted its own tranquility, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design."
"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
"Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state."
"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand."
"Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
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