Quotes by British Authors - Page 518

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions
Duncan William Gibbons
Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive
Benny Bellamacina
Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.
Elizabeth George
But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.
Neil Gaiman
I would rather burn out than rust out.
Amy Carmichael
My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?
Molly Looby
...I have decided that I shan't sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to work my ass off... and whenever the opportunity arises... dance my ass off. ... As someone very smart once wrote, 'Those who were seen dancing were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music'.
Amy Mowafi
Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. At the same time, it has been shown that certain forms persist with very little change, from the oldest to the newest fossiliferous formations; and thus show that progressive development is a contingent, and not a necessary result, of the nature of living matter.
Thomas Henry Huxley
How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.
Elizabeth George
It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.
Jeanette Winterson
Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song.O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
Richard Llewellyn
Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
Gavin Extence
It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.
Glen Duncan
Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.
Elizabeth George
Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.
Elif Shafak
...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really – it’s just that we’re taught not to notice. We’re taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won’t get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.It’s a lie we allow ourselves, and it’s understandable.But it’s simply not true.
Dianna Hardy
None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.
Dianna Hardy
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
Ian Fleming
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
Muriel Spark
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
Nick Harkaway
I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!”"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)
Terry Pratchett
Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about eighty years – in the West, at any rate – eighty years of working, eating, sleeping, shitting, breeding, and dying. Lives of buttoning and unbuttoning – who said that?
Zia Haider Rahman
Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them. Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
William Golding
I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!
Anne Perry
Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.
Charles Stross
If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.
Elizabeth George
Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.
Lars Iyer
Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.
Simon R. Green
I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.If you were to die tomorrow would you feel like you did everything you wanted to? Loved everyone and meant it? Lived with honesty and integrity? Stood up for what you believed in? Did you work to live or did you live to work? Those that hurt you or upset you did you try to work it out? Did you still love them from a distance even if they hurt you so bad? If not work to change and make it right before it's too late.Remember the house, the car, the money and the material possessions you can't take with you when your gone. All you have is YOU and what YOU were about. Remember that.
Jill Telford
I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.
Jill Telford
Forget the American dream...whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing...label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost.
Jill Telford
Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.
Jasper Fforde
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
Fay Weldon
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
Neil Gaiman
I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
John Fowles
Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization - The safe men. The compromisers. The moneymakers. The muddlers-through. Politics is full of them... so is businesses... so is the church. They're popular. Successful. Some of them work hard, other are slack, but all of them could tell a good story. Never where there such charming gravediggers in the world's history.
James Hilton
There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.
S.J. Watson
Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!
Helen Deakin
It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.
Fennel Hudson
Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Steven Magee
We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.
Gabriel Josipovici
Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?
Holly Bourne
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
Virginia Woolf
Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.
Alex Marwood
Drink the sun’s warmth and the moon’s icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
Emmanuelle de Maupassant
The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.
Steven Magee
I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.
Steven Magee
A poem a day keeps the doctor away.
Jill Telford
Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.
Dianna Hardy
When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.
Neel Burton
To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not how,I shall retrieve them now;Now I shall keep the vowI never kept before.
A.E. Housman
~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something~
Neil Gaiman
The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
Virginia Woolf
It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Achieving your heart’s desires is the key to living a life of bliss.
Steven Redhead
I learn so much that I previously did not know about the world of the immobile that it is hard to believe it all takes place over a few hours. At random: I learn about the casual indifference of the London cabbie to the wheelchair user and that the clearance on accessible entrances is measured in millimetres less than a knuckle. I learn how intractable it is to push a grown man around for hours and how spontaneity is the privilege of the able-bodied. In solid counterpart to all this grief, I learn about the lengths nurses are prepared to go to assist a purely recreational and ambitious project by one of their patients.
Marion Coutts
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
Mary Beard
This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?
Virginia Woolf
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
Virginia Woolf