Words Of Encouragement British Quotes

#1. We're fighting for a dream, for a life unlike anything we've ever known.

Heather Anastasiu

#2. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

George Thorndike Angell

#3. Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Daniel Pauly

#4. To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Thomas Holcroft

#5. Id her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king's and queen's heads.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#6. He will have guessed, surely?' said Merry. 'Were they likely to end any other way?' 'Not likely,' answered Gandalf, 'though they came to the balance of a hair. But

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Marquis De Sade

#8. The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]

Elias Canetti

#9. Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about

Hillman Curtis

#10. I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

Elena Ferrante

#11. The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

Henry Petroski

#12. The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.

Fred Saberhagen

#13. Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?"
"Because it exists.

Leo Tolstoy