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Quotes by English Authors
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
"The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?"
"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
"People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade."
"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
"I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true."
"Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit."
"Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers."
"The mob has many heads but no brains."
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand."
"We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years."
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by."
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
"I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare."
"Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum-"You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it."That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies."It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding."
"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business."
"Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe."
"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
"Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you."
"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
"More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions."
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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