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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands " there is nothing here for a man but his own mind."
"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy."
"There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting."
"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
"It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity."
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
"There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within."
"Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself."
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"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."
"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."
"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."
"People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid."
"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time."
"Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect."
"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
"I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps."
"At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to."
"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
"I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like, 'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you."
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