Quotes by British Authors - Page 810

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
Philip Pullman
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
H. Rider Haggard
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.
Tom Hiddleston
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.
Steven Moffat
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
Neil Gaiman
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
Terry Pratchett
What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.
J.K. Rowling
Roads Go Ever OnRoads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that never find the sea;Over snow by winter sown,And through the merry flowers of June,Over grass and over stone,And under mountains in the moon.Roads go ever ever on,Under cloud and under star.Yet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seen,And horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows green,And trees and hills they long have known.The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger way,Where many paths and errands meet.The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with weary feet,Until it joins some larger way,Where many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say.The Road goes ever on and onOut from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone.Let others follow, if they can!Let them a journey new begin.But I at last with weary feetWill turn towards the lighted inn,My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
J.R.R. Tolkien
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
David Mitchell
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
Mark A. Cooper
She burned too bright for this world.
Emily Brontë
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Douglas Adams
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
Bill Bryson
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T.S Eliot
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
Mark Haddon
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wiseIf you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out toolsIf you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
Neil Gaiman
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. Rowling
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W Somerset Maugham
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Sophie Kinsella
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
Monica Ali
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out
Oliver James
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia Woolf
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
James Hilton
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door
J.R.R. Tolkien
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
Audrey Hepburn
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
Neil Gaiman
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Neil Gaiman
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
Stephen Fry
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
Terry Pratchett
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
Jasper Fforde
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
Peter Shaffer
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
A.A. Milne
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Douglas Adams
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
J.K. Rowling
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. Lawrence
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
Terry Pratchett
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Terry Pratchett
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
J.K. Rowling
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
J.K. Rowling
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
George Harrison
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.
Jeanette Winterson
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
Angela Carter
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott