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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
"On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial."
"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."
"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."
"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."
"Consistency is very important when you're making films."
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
"We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves."
"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."
"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
"It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."
"There was something indomitable about Maria " like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said."
"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."
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."
"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."
"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
"I have a temper on me that could hold back tides."
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
"The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That's what seemed real now " the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way."
"I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber."
"It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins."
"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."
"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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