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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living."
"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."
"I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out."
"I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."
"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."
"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 crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant."
"The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality."
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."
"It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's."
"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more."
"I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night."
"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
"I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!"
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."
"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."
"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency."
"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat."
"When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement."
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"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."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty."
"Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have."
"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
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