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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
"The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt."
"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."
"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.""
"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."
"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
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