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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."
"The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance."
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
"It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be."
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
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