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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
"Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous."
"To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap."
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
"If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her."
"I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning."
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
"If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?"
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."
"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."
"We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen."
"The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?"
"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
"I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up."
"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
"The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more."
"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret " something ancient and precious."
"Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God."
"Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it."
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."
"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
"Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill?""If He did not, He could not be good himself...""...Then He can't be so hard on us as the parsons say, even in the after-life?""He will give absolute justice, which is the only good thing. He will spare nothing to bring His children back to himself, their sole well-being, whether He achieve it here--or there."
"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion."
"But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more."
"So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts."
"Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them."
"See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security."
"I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."
"He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration."
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
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