Quotes by british authors

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it? Naveen Andrews

Life You Live Life Live Say Take End Chance

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman

Love You Heart Inside Horrible Someone Opens Mess Vulnerable Makes Been Chest Up Get Means Your Ever

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. Neil Kinnock

You Old Fall Young Ordinary Warn Ill Grow

I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard. Neon Hitch

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. Nick Clegg

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God. Olivia Hussey

God You Allah Care Power Believe Higher Higher Power Part Buddha Call Always Krishna Really Believed Jesus

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac

Science People Before Everyone Way Tell Exact Exact Opposite Tries Something Poetry No-One Knew Understood Opposite Such A Way Ever

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. Princess Diana

Day Age People Feeling Unloved Day And Age Disease Biggest

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. Princess Diana

Today Problem World Other Everyone Intolerance Intolerant Greatest Each

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. Princess Diana

You Comfort Comfortable Afflicted

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. Rebecca Pidgeon

Life Good Grateful Good Things Be Grateful Contemplate Them Your Things

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet. Richard Branson

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre

Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, 'Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.' 'Well, it's about Muslims starting jihad.' 'It's about terrorism.' 'It's about this or that.' And no, it's not. It's about money. Roger Waters

Terrorism You Fight Money Will Ideology Fighting Everybody Jihad East Tell Muslims About Almost Well Middle Middle East Thinks Starting

That's why I call the show 'Us & Them,' because I believe there is no 'them.' There's only 'us.' Roger Waters

Believe Only Call Because Them Us Show Why

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.' Rory Stewart

Love Relationship You Marriage Lose Say One Thing Only Only One Thing Simply Wrong House Because Answer Up Afford Going Love You Break Break Up Cannot Which Thing

If you're someone who doesn't have Muslim friends, and your only experience of Islam is what you see on the news - the angry man with a beard doing or saying something terrible - then you may inadvertently associate that with Islam and think that is what it's all about. Sadiq Khan

Saying News Angry You Man Beard Experience Islam Think Muslim See About Someone Something Only Terrible Doing Friends May Inadvertently Then Your Who Associate

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler

Life Art Drawing Insufficient Conclusions Premises Sufficient

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. Simon Beaufoy

Life Real Life Drama Shaped Messy Real Version

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.' Tommy Cooper

Me You Cheese Hop Kitchen He French Well Said Got Waiter Yes Get Frog Legs Sandwich Asked