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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense."
"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated."
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line."
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"
"Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit."
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
"Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin."
"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
"Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify."
"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."
"We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours."
"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."
"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
"I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
"I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen."
"If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?"
"In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight."
"I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business."
"The present is the living sum-total of the whole past."
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