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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."
"It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God."
"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
"When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy."
"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."
"Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God."
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
"It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden curtains about us at night if we lived in such a cottage, on the side of a hill along which the wind swept like a wild river. Through the cottage it would be streaming all night long. And a poor woman with a cough, or a man who has been out in the cold all day, is very glad of such a place to lie in, and leave the the rest of the house to the wind and the fairies."
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."
"Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else."
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."
"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
"Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home."
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
"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."
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
"We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation."
"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."
"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction."
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