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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me."
"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
"You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do."
"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time."
"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
"Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large."
"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."
"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
"We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen."
"It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God."
"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
"Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself."
"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."
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
"If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day."
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."
"It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden curtains about us at night if we lived in such a cottage, on the side of a hill along which the wind swept like a wild river. Through the cottage it would be streaming all night long. And a poor woman with a cough, or a man who has been out in the cold all day, is very glad of such a place to lie in, and leave the the rest of the house to the wind and the fairies."
"My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe."
"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
"Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise."
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
"The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, "God called me there. If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us."
"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
"There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end."
"During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
"The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."
"Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss."
"Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus."
"Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get."
"The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?"
"I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more."
"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."
"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
"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."
"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
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