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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.""
"And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system."
"You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass."
"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
"Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come."
"After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?"
"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."
"But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could."
"The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived."
"It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films."
"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."
"In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort."
"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."
"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."
"Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration."
"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
"I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public."
"The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight."
"I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
"Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own."
"I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies."
"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind."
"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one."
"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."
"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
"It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another."
"The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency."
"I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it."
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