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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
"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."
"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."
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
"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."
"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."
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
"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."
"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."
"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for."
"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."
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
"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."
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
"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 corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance."
"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."
"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."
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
"I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today."
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
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