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Quotes by English Authors
"I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it."
"What did I tell you? Something's happening!' cried Sam. '"The war's going well," said Shagrat; but Gorbag he wasn't so sure. And he was right there too. Things are looking up, Mr. Frodo. haven't you got some hope now?''Well, no, not much, Sam,' Frodo sighed. 'That's away beyond the mountains. We're going east not west. And I'm so tired. And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. And I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire."
"This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed."
"For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done."
"Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be."
"Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it."
"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."
"He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around."
"Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd."
"Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries."
"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
"Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while."
"I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to."
"One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection."
"I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove."
"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"
"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
"Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled."
"The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense."
"The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean."
"A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived."
"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
"I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it."
"I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
"Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each."
"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."
"I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change."
"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
"I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do."
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
"The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."
"I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves."
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