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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."
"The scraps of information she'd gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time " the unsaid."
"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
"The space where I write is in my head, I suppose."
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life."
"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."
"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
"It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she'd insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company."
"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."
"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."
"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."
"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
"I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long."
"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
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