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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"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."
"We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention."
"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."
"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
"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."
"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."
"I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself."
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction."
"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries."
"Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached."
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
"I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special."
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."
"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."
"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
"Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
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