Quotes by British Authors - Page 669

I advise people to avoid workplaces that prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) visits.
Steven Magee
Very few people realize how dangerous the indoor environment can be to long term health.
Steven Magee
NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth failed at two years of uninterrupted human habitation. Both cases required extracting the sickened people from the toxic environments. At this point it is ludicrous to talk about a permanent manned base on Mars.
Steven Magee
I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!
Eleanor Farjeon
Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.
C.S. Woolley
An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.
Steven Magee
If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation.
Steven Magee
The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.
Steven Magee
She didn't do people, dammit. She did books. A world of difference
Vic James
I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me.
Anthony T.Hincks
In a dog's world,would we be his best friend?
Anthony T.Hincks
I'd prefer to be alone by myself,than alone in a room full of people.
Anthony T.Hincks
If you don't believe in yourself,How can you ever believe in another?
Anthony T.Hincks
The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least it would stop me from contemplating violence; when people in shops & so on order me to have a nice day in this authoritarian way, I want to kill, kill, kill. When I mutter 'sod off' under my breath, they think it is a Russian Orthodox benediction.
Susannah Clapp
You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons of the hunters and the wandering singers, and from our boyhood nothing ever gave us greater pleasure than to stand under lonely skies in forest clearings, or to find a beach looking westward at evening over unfrequented seas. But the great mass of men love companionship so much that nothing seems of any worth compared with it. Human communion is their meat and drink, and so they use the railways to make bigger and bigger hives for themselves.
Hilaire Belloc
People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
Hanif Kureishi
Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.
Steven Magee
The energy industry is filled with toxic people that are following a corporate government subsidized known biologically toxic agenda.
Steven Magee
It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.
Steven Magee
Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.
Steven Magee
The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.
Steven Magee
The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.
Warren Ellis
Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out.
Emily Barr
Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility.
Steven Magee
When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
Steven Magee
Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
Steven Magee
Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.
Steven Magee
With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.
Steven Magee
We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management.
Steven Magee
I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.
Steven Magee
If I have to mourn for only ONE person,Then I choose EVERYONE.
Anthony T.Hincks
My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was that we weren't going to crash into anyone, because barely any fucker lived there.
Frankie Boyle
Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.
Steven Magee
The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.
Steven Magee
Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
Steven Magee
Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.
Anthony T.Hincks
Loneliness doesn't come from being alone.It comes from seeing other people together.
Anthony T.Hincks
...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...
Jay Woodman
When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic.
Anthony T.Hincks
Only poor people are corrupt. If you don't believe me, just go and ask a rich person.
Anthony T.Hincks
People said that I was crazy, but I wasn't.I was just different.
Anthony T.Hincks
A smile is on everyone's lips.
Anthony T.Hincks
They drain you sometimes. They really do. "What's it all about then mate? What's the secret of life? You should know. You're a fucking cab driver." Yeah, right. (As if I'll learn the secret of life talking to arseholes like you all night). "Got any saucepan lids, mate? I've got two. I hate them. Bastards, they are. Ruined my life. I hate the bastards."I keep quiet "Don't try and rip us off, mate. I've got a key between my knuckles." (Whatever). The life of a cab driver. Glimpses into other people's lives.
Karl Wiggins
Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Psychiatric institutions are filled with lots of normal people.
Anthony T.Hincks
People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!
Anthony T.Hincks
We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?
Paula Hawkins
People are like the waves, all similar, none the same
Benny Bellamacina
You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.
Agatha Christie
What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!
Anthony Ryan
Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?
Len Deighton
In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.
Steven Magee
The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am.""Om." said his companion.Unseen by them, a blossom fell.
Helen Fox
Good things could happen to not so bad people.
Mike Gayle
You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh till his teeth dropped out; from old age.
Joyce Cary
…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.
Kathleen Winter
It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, that’s the point and once they start to legally restrict what we can say and what we can’t say then we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.” “We’re talking about racists,” said Karen. “No one should be allowed to be racist,” said Mark. “But that’s not down to the Government or the courts,” said Rob desperately, “that should be down to us, we should make it difficult for people to be racist, we should frown upon such language and activity, it should be by peer pressure that we stop people from being abusive and unpleasant, not down to the Government.” “Why not?” demanded Karen, “they make the laws so it’s down to them to make the punishments.” “It’s not about punishment,” pressed Rob, “it’s about morality and social conscience, it’s about standing up for what’s right versus moral laziness, it’s about courage versus cowardice.
Arun D. Ellis
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
David Gemmell
The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.
Denton Welch