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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."
"Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use."
"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
"It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem."
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."
"The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion."
"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets."
"The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things."
"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
"A friend is a present you give to yourself."
"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead."
"This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
"I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play."
"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
"The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy."
"Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set."
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
"A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine."
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