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Quotes by English Authors
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love."
"Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself."
"For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving."
"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."
"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."
"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
"So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity."
"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."
"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
"Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and abusrd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death."
"I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame."
"Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)"
"Problems arise when (especially) theologians use such metaphorical language without realizing that that is what they are doing, and without even realizing that there is a distinction between metaphor and reality " saying something like: 'It is not important whether Jesus really fed the five thousand. What matters is what the idea of the story means to us.' Actually it is important, because millions of devout people do believe the Bible is literally true."
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises."
"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."
"When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief."
"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
"A husband is very much like a house or a horse."
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
"Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you."
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