Quotes by British Authors - Page 787

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.In my garden, I've only got weeds. I think they're a nuisance.
Anthony T.Hincks
They always say that the daughter will grow up to look like their mother. So, I asked my girlfriend if I could see her mother naked.Needless to say.It was a very short relationship.
Anthony T.Hincks
A teddy bear will give you love.A grizzly bear will give you a mauling.Some bears aren't just the same.
Anthony T.Hincks
F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!
Anthony T.Hincks
When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.
Anthony T.Hincks
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
William Blake
Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.
Anthony T.Hincks
Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.AndColor is spelt L-O-V-E.
Anthony T.Hincks
A good cricketer never loses his nerve.He just bats on!
Anthony T.Hincks
Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line.
Anthony T.Hincks
The oceans and seas are forces which, if you forget, they will gladly remind you.
Anthony T.Hincks
I wish that I was 'tech savvy', but unfortunately for me and my family, I'm 'tech illiterate'.
Anthony T.Hincks
Hi! I'm Tech Savvy!
Anthony T.Hincks
Preach in hatred and you will only find love.
Anthony T.Hincks
A dwarf will always tell tall stories.
Anthony T.Hincks
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
Anthony T.Hincks
When the Illuminati thought of their name, they were hiding in a darkened room with one candle.They are still hiding in that room with the same candle.
Anthony T.Hincks
We want your skull! Make no bones about it!
Anthony T.Hincks
I'm collecting for God. Can you spare a smile?
Anthony T.Hincks
Tickles are what power my giggle machine.
Anthony T.Hincks
If we are to climb that mountain, we had better find that molehill.
Anthony T.Hincks
The depth of my feelings is proportional to the depth of the color.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's when we're inches apart and not speaking or touching each other that I feel that we are miles apart.
Anthony T.Hincks
The language of God is color because, it's the only thing that everyone understands. And even if you're blind to the world you can still hear the color in everything.If you don't believe me, close your eyes and listen to the wind and feel it on your skin; listen to the birds as they call one another and feel the sunlight on your face.That's love and that's what color is and that is the language of God.
Anthony T.Hincks
No one can put words into my mouth, but they can put thoughts into my head.
Anthony T.Hincks
We can't go back to who we once were. We can only go on and become the person we were meant to be.
Anthony T.Hincks
I was born on the cusp of technology.
Anthony T.Hincks
Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live.
Anthony T.Hincks
Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature.Artificial is seeing that same flower try and grow in a vase of water.
Anthony T.Hincks
A pair of jeans makes you feel good.A pair of Levis make you feel special!
Anthony T.Hincks
A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.
Anthony T.Hincks
Dreams come from that special place in our mind where our soul loves to spend its holidays.
Anthony T.Hincks
My one and only goal is to unite the world.
Anthony T.Hincks
Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's when you tame your nightmares, that your dreams will willingly enter the corral.
Anthony T.Hincks
Depression! It really gets you down.
Anthony T.Hincks
God's everywhere.So remember when you go to the toilet not to laugh.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's when you sit alone,Or lay in your bed, That we will be watching,Waiting,Until you get scared.Then we will come,A scratch and a chill,For you will feel goosebumps,Look at the windowsill!Did you see a face?Looking in at you,You know that you did,Beware...you'll turn blue.Is that the wind,Howling at the moon,Or is it a werewolf,That's coming for you?So sit in your chair,Or lay in your bed,Because we''ll be there,And you'll be dead!
Anthony T.Hincks
We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.
Anthony T.Hincks
Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.
Neel Burton
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
James Runcie
Not a good book. It attempts to take a complex subject and make it assessable to the layman with cartoons, and in this effort it fails. Moreover, the authors often take biased stances, and while I agree with them for the most part it nonetheless detracts from any scholarly offerings in which they wish to partake.
Richard Appignanesi
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.
Bertrand Russell
When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.
Susan Blackmore
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.
Bronowski
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
Russell Hoban
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
C.S. Lewis
Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
Virginia Woolf
I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.
Alan W. Watts
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…
Aldous Huxley
Однако существует довод и более общего характера против слепого преклонения перед греками или кем бы то ни было еще. Правильное отношение к изучению того или иного философа состоит не в том, чтобы почитать или презирать его, но прежде всего в некоторого рода предрасположенности, дающей возможность понять, что именно склоняет к тому, чтобы верить в его теории, и только потом следует оживлять критическое отношение, которое должно напоминать, насколько это возможно, состояние ума той личности, которая отбрасывает мнения, отстаиваемые ею прежде. Презрение мешает первой части этого процесса, преклонение – второй. Следует при этом учитывать две вещи: надо помнить, что человек, чьи взгляды и теории заслуживают изучения, должен, по-видимому, обладать определенным умом, но надо также иметь в виду, что ни один человек не достигал, вероятно, полной и окончательной истины по какому бы то ни было вопросу. Когда умный человек выражает совершенно абсурдный с нашей точки зрения взгляд, мы не должны пытаться доказывать, что этот взгляд тем не менее является правильным, но нам следует попытаться понять, каким образом этот взгляд когда-то казался правильным. Это упражнение исторического и психологического воображения одновременно и расширяет сферу нашего мышления, и помогает нам понять, насколько глупыми многие из лелеемых нами предрассудков покажутся веку, обладающему другим складом ума.
Bertrand Russell
If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.
A.E. Coppard
Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.
Alexander McCall Smith
Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
Iain Pears
Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."Olivier frowned. "So?""Dear boy, I must tell you a secret.""What?""I do believe it is wrong.
Iain Pears
I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began."And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all.""I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly."Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin.
Iain Pears
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
Alain de Botton
Следует признать, что имеется определенный тип христианской этики, к которому осуждающая критика Ницше может быть применена справедливо. Паскаль и Достоевский, которых он сам приводит в качестве примера, – оба имеют что-то жалкое в своей добродетели. Паскаль принес в жертву своему Богу великолепный математический ум, тем самым приписывая Богу жестокость, которая является космическим расширением болезненных душевных мук самого Паскаля. Достоевский не желал иметь ничего общего с «личной гордостью»; он согрешил бы, чтобы покаяться и испытать наслаждение исповеди. Я не стану обсуждать вопрос, насколько в таких помрачениях ума следует обвинять христианство, но я согласен с Ницше, считая прострацию Достоевского презренной. Я должен согласиться и с тем, что прямота и гордость и даже некоторое самоутверждение являются элементами самого лучшего характера. Нельзя восхищаться добродетелью, в основе которой лежит страх.
Bertrand Russell