Quotes by british authors

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. John Donne

Humiliation Beginning Sanctification

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne

Saying Fools Poetry Know Am Loving Whining Two

Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne

Pleasure Diversified None

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. John Henry Newman

Corruption Evil Own Only Excess Substance Which Perversion Defect

Ability is sexless. John Henry Newman

Ability

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. John Henry Newman

Change Our We Cannot Distort Must Find Take Facts Attempt Wishing Make Cannot Them Us Use Let Us Things

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline. John Lloyd

Joke Universe Giant Know Practical Maybe

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock

Happiness Like Practiced Thing Violin

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock

Best Peace Result Wait Our Done Should

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. John Major

Genocide Think Cleansing Nations Aside Ethnic Stand

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. John Major

Future Opportunity Jobs Deliver Economy Want Need

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression. John Oliver

Angry You Memory People Made Somewhere Active Kind Unpleasant Between Passive So Many People Blur Aggression Many Staring

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. John Oliver

Behavior Think Puns Wit Human Just Human Behavior Form Lowest Lowest Form

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. John Polkinghorne

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. John Polkinghorne

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. John Tillotson

Great Mind Argument Able Great Mind Bear Provocation Forgive Reason

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes

Writing Key Feeling Gut Gut Feeling Scene Emotional Failed Cry While

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience. Jon Anderson

Beautiful You Experience Ego Everything Evolve Perceive Unravel Onion Rather Daunting Higher Idea Global Becoming Still Go Than Where Place Let Go Growing Conscience Consciousness

I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation. Jonathan Dimbleby

Life Great You Be Happy Happy People Joy Wonderful Great Deal My Life Isolation Other Dreadful Combination Deal Makes How Hand Very Wonderful Life Just Fortunate Aware

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. Jonathan Dimbleby

Free Rich Every Aid Else Back Market Monumental Rip-Off Through Free Trade Global Global Market Accept Trade Dollar Dollars West Tariff Subsidies Africa Form Mean Poor Grotesque Barriers Two

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. Jonathan Miller

Just Hog Really Whole Jew

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. Jonathan Sacks

Technology People Space Face Benefit Face-To-Face Chatting Real Cyberspace Compensate

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. Jonathan Sacks

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