Quotes by British Authors - Page 561

You're never lost. You always know exactly where you are. You're right here. It's just that sometimes you've misplaced your destination.Brian W. Porter 2005Have you ever wondered how the computer you're using got to the store? How about your medicines, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the furniture, the plants in the garden center? Do they have a railroad right there? Does merchandise magically appear? Only if you grow your own food, make your own clothes, make your own tools, cut your own wood, and make your own furniture, can you get away from trucking. Everything you see, even the nature outside in some places, has been on at least one truck.
Brian W. Porter
People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?
Jill Telford
Every unknown is a beginning'.
Tracey-anne McCartney
Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
Waterstones
Always think in circles to get your ideas around
Benny Bellamacina
We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.
Meg Rosoff
Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.
James Hilton
We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions and all that. But we have a chemistry that no one else in the world has. So we don't mess with it." - Chris Martin
Chris Martin
Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.
John Fowles
Can I quote myself...? Oh wait, I think I just did.
Scarlett Finn
When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...
Tracey-anne McCartney
Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?
Glen Duncan
No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.
Joss Sheldon
Put all your pain on a piece of paper, write it all down, every experience, every ache, every hurtful moment. Then take a match, and set fire to that piece of paper. All the hurt you have inside you is burning just as it burnt inside of you, until it is completely gone. From this moment forward you are free. Nothing can harm you. No past. No present. No future. You are reborn into water, and nothing in the entirety of this world can set fire to water, nor crush it. Whatever pressures you face, you will float. Whatever tries to sink you, you will rise up. Today, right now, in this moment, you are a warrior. Now smile, it will set fire to those who sought to burn you...
Seja Majeed
Some people are lucky to find love, others must settle with being liked...
Seja Majeed
In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand...
Seja Majeed
You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.
J.K. Rowling
I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I’m drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.
Laura Marling
I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I’m grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I’m only here until I figure out how to get out again.
Laura Marling
People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.
Laura Marling
Jimmy Boom Semtex says Semtex goes BOOM! Handle his books with care.
Jimmy Boom Semtex
I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.
Laura Marling
If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...
Nick Armbrister
A man with no imagination can never inspire others.
Rick Haynes
Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.
Benny Bellamacina
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
William Temple
It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.
Joe Abercrombie
Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.
Holly Bourne
When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.
John Lennon
...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...
Sarah Kane
If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.
Isra Sravenheart
I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind?
The 1975
People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.
Emma J. Bell
Kindness is contagious. When we are kind, then we inspire others to be kind.
Emma J. Bell
Without compassion, you will never truly connect with another human being.
Emma J. Bell
Harshness is the enemy of gratitude.
Emma J. Bell
Welhewan is charming us,' Sasha says in an unsure voice. 'It is trying to soothe us with its lullaby. Do not let yourself . . . Oh, a butterfly. Look how beautiful it is! No, don't look. The forest is making us happy, and we cannot let it.
Sarah Dalton
There's always another side to the story but nothing compares to the glory of our own short sighted, one sided glorious view
AlunaGeorge
It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul.--Mistletoe (2012) by Lyn Gardner
Lyn Gardner
Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
Neil Gaiman
It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due
Muriel Spark
Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe
God's codpiece, you're very kind
Laurie Lee
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.
Alexander Pope
We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy — the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial — carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won." ~Justicar Alaric
Ben Counter
Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age.
Nick Harkaway
Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
Jane Austen
People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.
John Christopher
The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the programs just seemed dreamlike and baffling. In one studio show a group of Scandinavian academics watched as one of them poured liquid plastic into a bucket of cold water. It solidified, they pulled it out, handed it around the circle, and, as far as I could tell, intellectualized on its random misshapenness. I phoned home but my wife didn’t answer. It crossed my mind that she might be dead. I panicked. Then it turned out that she wasn’t dead. She had just been at the shops.
Jon Ronson
The end must justify the means.
Matthew Prior
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
William Wordsworth
I know a lie when I hear one.
Adrian Mitchell
the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
George Gordon Byron
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
C.S. Lewis
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.""Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
Neil Gaiman
Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.
David Mitchell
Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction. And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It’s as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us.
Stephen Lovegrove
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W Somerset Maugham
For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.
Elizabeth George