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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
"When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement."
"However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable."
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
"This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness."
"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
"Who can give a man this, his own name?"
"When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out."
"Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure."
"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality."
"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."
"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."
"Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions."
"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
"It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other."
"A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind's eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own " a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets."
"I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular."
"The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?"
"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."
"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive."
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
"The will of the world is never the will of God."
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
"I believe the era of the militant lady is back."
"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
"He comes where He commands us to leave."
"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
"Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true."
"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
"Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
"The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject."
"Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation."
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