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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
"I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well."
"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work."
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
"Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth.""
"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."
"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."
"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
"She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they cannot find them, being themselves too near the ground to have any shadows; and what becomes of them at last, there is but one who knows."
"It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet."
"Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God."
"Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help."
"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
"I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary."
"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."
"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."
"He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue."
"It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it,require some similar shock."
"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."
"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."
"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."
"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize."
"Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education."
"The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."
"Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded " not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water."
"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
"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."
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
"The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator. He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself."
"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."
"Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level."
"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
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