Quotes by British Authors - Page 786

Is the undertaker joyous when his turn comes around? All those years holding the door open. To pass through - does it feel like a privileged?
Richard Smyth
When God sprinkled stars in the heavens, he opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe.
Anthony T.Hincks
The joy of having no friends is that I can do anything I want; when I want.The downside is, that I have no one to share it with.
Anthony T.Hincks
DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.
Anthony T.Hincks
Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful.
Anthony T.Hincks
Each day brings with it a whole new world because each day is different from the previous day or the one it precedes.No two days will ever be the same and that is the beauty of the world and of God, because he wants us to see and experience new things each and every day.
Anthony T.Hincks
Doors are funny things. Some lead to somewhere exciting and wonderful, while others lead to the mundane and ordinary. Some, because they are gaudy and ornate, usher us into the land of greed and money. But many look unassuming and plain, yet hidden behind their simplicity one can find love; warmth; a cozy fire; a home cooked meal and a beautiful family.It's these doors I search for in life and it's these doors that I shall find.
Anthony T.Hincks
Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!
Anthony T.Hincks
When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!
Anthony T.Hincks
When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.
Anthony T.Hincks
You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.
Anthony T.Hincks
Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!
Anthony T.Hincks
I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's time to fly.Care to join me?
Anthony T.Hincks
When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do.
Anthony T.Hincks
When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.
Anthony T.Hincks
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.
Olaf Stapledon
Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion.
Anthony T.Hincks
When the sea reaches the sky, then we shall all become one.
Anthony T.Hincks
Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.
Anthony T.Hincks
Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination.
Anthony T.Hincks
Never eat potato chips without first opening the packet!
Anthony T.Hincks
I don't fit in because I don't want to disappear.
Anthony T.Hincks
Is a figment of our imagination actually reality coming to life?
Anthony T.Hincks
I have a quote for every occasion, then I remembered that I don't have that many occasions.
Anthony T.Hincks
Your beauty isn't in your laughter. It's in your soul.
Anthony T.Hincks
Sleep not with an albatross unless you wish your dreams to fly away.
Anthony T.Hincks
Windows open out onto the universe around you, but doors will take you to where your imagination lies.
Anthony T.Hincks
A road to nowhere will always go somewhere.
Anthony T.Hincks
Do we ever get slow rain?
Anthony T.Hincks
I don't have a garden full of flowers.I have a garden full of love.
Anthony T.Hincks
[Wither] knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth a merely aesthetic repugnance to realities that were crude or vulgar, had deepened and darkened, year after year, into a fixed refusal of everything that was in any degree other than himself. He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void. The indicative mood now corresponded to no thought that his mind could entertain. He had willed with his whole heart that there should be no reality and no truth, and now even the imminence of his own ruin could not wake him.
C.S. Lewis
True humility derives from a proper perspective of our human condition: one among billions on a small planet among billions, like a fungus on a tiny fragment of cheese. Of course, it is nearly impossible for human beings to remain this objective for very long, but truly humble people are nonetheless far more conscious of the insignificance of their true relations, an insignificance that verges on non-existence. A speck of dust does not think itself more superior or inferior than another, nor does it concern itself for what other specks of dust might or might not think. Enthralled by the miracle of existence, the truly humble person lives not for herself or her image, but for life itself, in a condition of pure peace and pleasure.
Neel Burton
Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus
Anthony T.Hincks
Beauty is a female thing. That's why nature is so stunning.
Anthony T.Hincks
A dove carries peace on its wings.
Anthony T.Hincks
You don't need to be in the light to be a beacon of beauty.For Marta
Anthony T.Hincks
When you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.
Anthony T.Hincks
When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?
Anthony T.Hincks
Love powers my heart and color powers my soul.
Anthony T.Hincks
When I reach my mountain top I will step off and follow the clouds all the way to the top of the world.Once there, I'll probably keep going.Who knows?Perhaps I will meet God along the way.
Anthony T.Hincks
Thank you for being you, because without whom, I wouldn't be me.
Anthony T.Hincks
You should never try and out guess Mother Nature because when you do, you come off second best.
Anthony T.Hincks
Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I’m making out a case to myself, and debating my own feelings andintentions with myself. Who is this self, this phantom internal partner, with whom I’mentering into all these arrangements? (I ask myself.)
Michael Frayn
Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case to myself, and debating my own feelings and intentions with myself. Who is this self, this phantom internal partner, with whom I’m entering into all these arrangements? (I ask myself.)
Michael Frayn
It's when you take somebody's innocence that you also take their life.
Anthony T.Hincks
Everybody is guilty. It's only the innocent that aren't.
Anthony T.Hincks
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
Anthony T.Hincks
Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter as it appears in physics and things as they appear in sensation. Men of science, for the most part, are willing to condemn immediate data as "merely subjective," while yet maintaining the truth of the physics inferred from those data. But such an attitude, though it may be *capable* of justification, obviously stands in need of it; and the only justification possible must be one which exhibits matter as a logical construction from sense-data―unless, indeed, there were some wholly *a priori* principle by which unknown entities could be inferred from such as are known. It is therefore necessary to find some way of bridging the gulf between the world of physics and the world of sense, and it is this problem which will occupy us in the present lecture. Physicists appear to be unconscious of the gulf, while psychologists, who are conscious of it, have not the mathematical knowledge required for spanning it. The problem is difficult, and I do not know its solution in detail. All that I can hope to do is to make the problem felt, and to indicate the kind of methods by which a solution is to be sought."―from_Our Knowledge of the External World_, p. 107.
Betrand Russell
Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set boundaries. To say that a thing is green limits it by cutting it from the sphere of pink, blue, or other-coloured things. To say that it is good cuts it off from the sphere of evil. This limitation is the same as negation. To *affirm* that a thing is within certain limits is to *deny* that it is outside those limits. To say that it is green is to say that it is not pink. Affirmation involves negation. Whatever is said of a thing denies something else of it. All determination is negation.This principle is fundamental for Hegel also, but with him it takes rather the converse form that *all negation is determination*. Formal logicians will remind us that we cannot simply convert Spinoza's proposition. But it is sufficient to point out in reply that not only does affirmation involve negation; negation likewise involves affirmation. To say that a thing belongs to one class is to affirm that it belongs to some other class,—though we may not know what that class is. Positive and negative are correlatives which mutually involve each other. To posit is to negate: this is Spinoza's principle. To negate is to posit: this is Hegel's.When, therefore, we meet Hegel talking about "the portentous power of the negative," we have to consider that for him negation is the very process of creation. For the *positive* nature of an object consists in its determinations. The nature of a stone is to be white, heavy, hard, etc. And since all determinations are negations, it follows that the positive nature of a thing consists in its negations. Negation, therefore, is of the very essence of positive being. And for the world to come into being what is above all necessary is the force of negation, "the portentous power of the negative." The genus only becomes the species by means of the differentia, and the differentia is precisely that which carves out a particular class from the general class by excluding, i.e., negating, the other species. And the species again only becomes the individual in the same way, by negating other individuals. These thoughts are no causal reflections of Hegel. They underlie his entire system. We must get to understand that these three ideas, determination, limitation, and negation, all involve each other."—from_The Philosophy of Hegel_
W.T. Stace
Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
Neel Burton
They said that Superman was faster than a speeding train. If that's the case, how fast were his sperm and would Lois survive?It makes you think, doesn't it?
Anthony T.Hincks
Don't be surprised when Death comes knocking. Be surprised when he goes away empty handed.
Anthony T.Hincks
I am in your thoughts.You are in my dreams.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you share my heart. You share my love.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.
Anthony T.Hincks
In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.
Anthony T.Hincks