Quotes by British Authors - Page 158

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
Neil Gaiman
Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.
J.K. Rowling
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie
The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)
Jeanette Winterson
The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.
Lesslie Newbigin
You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?''Not at all.''But it's an ancient discipline...''New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.
Nicola Barker
She told me it was unlucky to share a reading with others, but the main point, the one I don't mind mentioning because it seems relevant to the story, is that she said I had a kind of evil spirit following me. 'Obviously,' she added, 'that sucks. But if we get you some amber—
Olivia Sudjic
Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.
Vera Stanley Alder
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)
Jeanette Winterson
Too much of anything can make you sick,even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Cole
Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.
Alexa Chung
A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia ― Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Chris Greenhalgh
A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia
Chris Greenhalgh
It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you
Ethel Lilian Voynich
The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man`s vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father
Ethel Lilian Voynich
If he didn`t want his opinion,why did he ask for it?
Jerome K. Jerome
The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once
Ethel Lilian Voynich
We are all fit for better things than we ever do
Ethel Lilian Voynich
In this month he had been too happy to sin much
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free.
Jay Woodman
Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.
Jonathan Bailey
Women like this exploited a person's natural civility, marching through the gaps left by a inability to speak the naked truth.
Rebecca Tope
I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
Neil Gaiman
The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.
David Mitchell
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.
Edmond Halley
It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, which at this unsettled season shone on the grass with the freshness of an occasional inspector rather than as an accustomed proprietor.
Thomas Hardy
The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it.
Malcolm Lowry
DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder was a Noise from a Drum or a Pan.VANNBRUGGHE. (Aside) What a Child is this! (To Dyer) These are only our Devices, and are like the Paint of our Painted Age.DYER. But in Meditation the Sunne is a vast and glorious Body, and Thunder is the most forcible and terrible Phaenomenon: it is not to be mocked, for the highest Passion is Terrour.
Peter Ackroyd
The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
Joseph Conrad
I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
Thomas Hardy
You always have my attention. When you're in the room, you're my sun.
Kate Meader
Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!
Steven Magee
Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.
Steven Magee
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold
The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, while the houses were white shells in a rounded grotto, pricked here and there by a great orange sun.
Daphne du Maurier
Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade
Charles Dickens
When the sun goes out, it will be your love that keeps we warm.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you're in love, the sun never stops shining.
Anthony T.Hincks
Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.
Anthony T.Hincks
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
Idries Shah
He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.""Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
Jane Austen
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens
But more than that, if you ally yourself with people who are prepared to fight to make a difference, then your life will always be in danger. I don't think it's fair to ever blame the person who makes the stand. Because the Doctor's so old, because he's done this so many times before, he sometimes forgets how dangerous it is. But if he didn't create the danger by opposing evil, if he didn't get these people to help him, then terrible things would happen. Standing up for what's right is always the best thing to do.
Tom MacRae
I know two kinds of Christians, those that love and those that love to be right.
Jim Sterling
To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.
Charles Dickens
I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong
Gillian Shields
Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.
Richard Llewellyn
I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.
Jane Austen
I kill in my own time,” he said. “In any case, killing unconscious people isn’t right.”“I can’t think of a more opportune time,” said the Loremaster.
Terry Pratchett
We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more...
Jay Woodman
The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's.
Jay Woodman
All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.
John Stuart Mill
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.
Terry Pratchett
in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.
Tony Judt
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
William Ewart Gladstone
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Neil Gaiman
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard Keynes