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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman."
"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
"I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii."
"Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that."
"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
"Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long."
"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
"What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job."
"Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life."
"The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance."
"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
"It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear."
"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."
"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God."
"On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper."
"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
"Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus."
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
"She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again."
"Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?"
"The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor."
"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw."
"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
"Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful."
"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."
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