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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace."
"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
"I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public."
"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness."
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time."
"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."
"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
"No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots."
"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."
"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."
"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
"Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings."
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
"Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it."
"People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter."
"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
"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."
"And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system."
"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."
"It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do."
"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
"The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own."
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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