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Quotes by English Authors
"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."
"There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful."
"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
"I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids."
"Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time."
"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
"Have you taken leave of your senses."
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
"Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you."
"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
"Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?"
"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
"To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;For our days are ending and our years failing.I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"
"It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was."
"The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds."
"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
"For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film."
"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
"The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards."
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
"We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot."
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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