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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"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."
"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."
"Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect."
"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."
"It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter."
"I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!"
"And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me."
"Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."
"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
"To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery."
"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."
"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."
"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
"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."
"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us."
"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."
"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."
"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
"Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form-spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved."
"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."
"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
"A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk."
"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."
"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."
"I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions."
"THIS is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth."
"Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option."
"While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another."
"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."
"Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it."
"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
"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?"
"The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more."
"I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions."
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