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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
"Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire."
"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
"She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they cannot find them, being themselves too near the ground to have any shadows; and what becomes of them at last, there is but one who knows."
"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."
"Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones into sons and daughters. But so unlike in many cases are the immediate consequences to those desired and expected, that it is hard for not a few to believe that he is anywhere looking after their fate--caring about them at all. And the doubt would be a reasonable one, if the end of things was marriage. But the end is life--that we become the children of God; after which, all things can and will go their grand, natural course; the heart of the Father will be content for his children, and the hearts of the children will be content in their Father."
"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."
"I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."
"It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"
"All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets."
"Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance."
"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects."
"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."
"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
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