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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
"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."
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for."
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"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."
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
"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."
"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
"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."
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
"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."
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance."
"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."
"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."
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
"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."
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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