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Quotes by English Authors
"Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."
"Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction."
"After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe."
"My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home."
"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
"HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM."
"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
"He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship."
"But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier."
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
"Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel."
"It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed."
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."
"Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shall endure'Till peace go with him to the tomb.-And let him nurse his fond deceit,And what if he must die in sorrow!Who would not cherish dreams so sweet,Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?"
"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."
"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
"I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of."
"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."
"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."
"In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul."
"That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry."
"This call for a new culture is not a new idea."
"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."
"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
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