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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us."
"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."
"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
"When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die."
"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please."
"But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?"
"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."
"There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine."
"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers."
"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
"When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious."
"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
"You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside."
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."
"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time."
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do."
"Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin."
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
"My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer."
"I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow."
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme."
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