Quotes by British Authors - Page 714

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
J.R.R. Tolkien
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
K.J. Parker
Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony
Steven Aitchison
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and
Patrick Ness
12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand StrategyGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
John Lubbock
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
LAW 46Never Appear Too PerfectAppearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
Robert Greene
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.
Stephen Hawking
...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.
Angie Sage
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
Thomas Hardy
Love isn't just what you feel for someone when you look at them. It's how they make you feel about yourself when they look back at you.
Priya Sharma
Luke is the sort of boy Taylor Swift could get at least three songs out of.
Beth Garrod
Who you are and what you experience is based upon the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the book you read, what someone said, the weather, an argument, nor your age, that are to blame (or credit!). You, and only you, are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
Mango Wodzak
The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
William Boyd
I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.
Wesley Stace
However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.
Ian McEwan
This time, something different happens, though. It’s the daydreaming that does it. I’m doing the usualthing—imagining in tiny detail the entire course of the relationship, from first kiss, to bed, to moving intogether, to getting married (in the past I have even organized the track listing of the party tapes), to howpretty she’ll look when she’s pregnant, to names of children—until suddenly I realize that there’snothing left to actually, like, happen. I’ve done it all, lived through the whole relationship in my head.I’ve watched the film on fast-forward; I know the whole plot, the ending, all the good bit. Now I’ve gotto rewind and watch it all over again in real time, and where’s the fun in that?And fucking … when’s it all going to fucking stop? I’m going to jump from rock to rock for the rest ofmy life until there aren’t any rocks left? I’m going to run each time I get itchy feet? Because I get themabout once a quarter, along with the utilities bills. More than that, even, during British Summer Time.I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you andme, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.
Nick Hornby
I think there are two kinds of marriage," Ethel said thoughtfully. "One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help." She was talking about herself and Bernie, Daisy realized. "The other is a wild passion, madness and joy and sex, possibly with someone completely unsuitable, maybe someone you don't admire or don't even really like." She was thinking about her affair with Fitz, Daisy felt sure. She held her breath: she knew Ethel was now telling her the raw truth. "I've been lucky. I've had both," Ethel said. "And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.
Ken Follett
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.
Agatha Christie
...for love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.
Elif Shafak
loveis giving everything too easilythen staying to try and claw it back
Andrew McMillan
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
Amanda Craig
Family is all politics. Everyone hates each other’s guts, if they’re honest… Most brothers and sisters try to top each other, given the chance; you always get the worst wars in countries with big families….People have kids because they go soft in the head, tarts especially. They forget what it’s like to be a kid themselves and want to remember through their own. They don’t want us, not real brand-new people who puke and criticise and tell them to bog off: they want their own frigging innocence back. They want to have their own lives back again, with the bad bits taken out. Quite frankly, they’d be better off with a dog.
Amanda Craig
Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.
Sam Owen
When you’re confident in what you have to say, you don’t need to add effect.
Sam Owen
A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothing…Certain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they cause furious growth and mutation of the inner self.
Amanda Craig
It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.
Colette McBeth
Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.
Sam Owen
When you lack self-esteem, people you encounter can feel it like an invisible barrier separating them from you; conversely, confidence helps people to feel connected to you.
Sam Owen
Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.
Sam Owen
If you emulate the behaviours of confident people, you will help yourself to become confident.
Sam Owen
In each moment you are nurturing or damaging your relationship with yourself.
Sam Owen
An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.
Sam Owen
Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.
Sam Owen
Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable silence the noise and then prove it wrong.
Sam Owen
Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.
Sam Owen
In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.
Sam Owen
Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.
Sam Owen
Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.
Robert Greene
Empathy is easier than anger, in the long-run.
Sam Owen
It’s important for intuitive people to differentiate other people’s energy from their own pre-existing emotional state.
Sam Owen
We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.
Sam Owen
It is easy to respond with anger it is more empowering and spiritually elevating to respond with compassion.
Sam Owen
How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.
Sam Owen
Jealousy of another means you need to work on making you proud of yourself.
Sam Owen
When you lack self-esteem it’s easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.
Sam Owen
Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.
Sam Owen
Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.
Sam Owen
Clarity and simplicity help us to build confidence keep things clear and keep them simple.
Sam Owen
Self-esteem comes from not letting unrelated external occurrences be tied to your own self-worth.
Sam Owen
We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.
Sam Owen
How we make people feel shapes how they feel about us.
Sam Owen
Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
Sam Owen