Quotes by British Authors - Page 770

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Samuel Chadwick
Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.
Christopher Robinson
We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.
David Gemmell
Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, '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.'...We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long books. The kind with no pictures or conversations.
Neil Gaiman
A good idea always attracts other good ideas.
Patrick Ness
we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.
Allan Frewin Jones
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.
David Gemmell
to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
Richard Branson
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation
Malcolm Gladwell
so here i sit. a sum of the parts. about a third way down this wonderful path, so to speak. and i've been thinking lately about a friendship that fell apart with time, with distance, and with the misunderstanding of youth. i'm trying not to confuse sadness with regret. not the easiest thing at times. i dont regret that certain things happened. i understand that perhaps i had a choice in the matter, or perhaps i believe in fate. probably not, but so far actions as small as the quickest glance to events as monumental as death have pushed me slowly along to right here, right now. there was no other way to get here. the meandering and erratic path was actually the straightest of lines. take away a handful of angry words, things once thought of as mistakes or regrets, and i'm suddenly a different person with a different history, a different future. that, i would regret. so here i sit. thinking about a person i once called my best friends. a man who might be full of sadness and regret, who might not give a damn, or who might, just might, remember the future and realize that's where its at.
Chris Wright
No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.
Bella Forrest
You are what you share.
Charles W. Leadbeater
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
Robert Greene
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.
Neil Gaiman
Newt Scamander : "My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
J.K. Rowling
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Lewis Carroll
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Henry James
Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars are now as little nourished by the past as the most ignorant mechanic who holds that "history is bunk..." [for] ...when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the "present state of the question." To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded. ... [Therefore, even though] learning makes a free commerce between the ages... every generation [is cut] off from all others... [and] ...characteristic errors of one [are not] corrected by the characteristic truths of another.
C.S. Lewis
When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it
Idries Shah
And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!
J.K. Rowling
ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil
Idries Shah
The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.
Tenzin Palmo
Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.
Idries Shah
A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)
Idries Shah
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
Idries Shah
All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
Rasheed Ogunlaru
I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.
Bertrand Russell
Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.
Daphne du Maurier
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Idries Shah
It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.
Ian Gregoire
Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.
Jacqueline Winspear
A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.
Fennel Hudson
Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.
Fennel Hudson
A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work
Idries Shah
We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time—often enough, a hypocritical waste of time. What child ever preaches? Yet time spent open-heartedly with a child is never wasted.
Quentin S. Crisp
It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.
Idries Shah
The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.
Idries Shah
Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.
Jean Plaidy
Those who understand will understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.
Idries Shah
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
Alfred North Whitehead
Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.
Idries Shah
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Brontë
The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.
Idries Shah
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.
Jane Austen
Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.
Anthony Ryan
Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.
Anthony Ryan
...the more I felt that perhaps believing in fairies was more important than seeing them. In seeing, there is often question and doubt.
Hazel Gaynor
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
Idries Shah
One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
Idries Shah
The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.
Idries Shah
The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.
Idries Shah
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
T.H. White
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.
Idries Shah
If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.
Idries Shah
Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.
Rasheed Ogunlaru