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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get."
"Oh Satan you're a wily one."
"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?"
"God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers."
"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you."
"Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today."
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
"Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity."
"For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited."
"The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
"Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club."
"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."
"I wondered if that was what I was doing myself " caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up."
"Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light."
"Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies."
"The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical."
"Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens."
"It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances."
"I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love."
"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
"The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed."
"Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world."
"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that."
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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