3610 quotes by scottish authors for you to enjoy

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all. David Livingstone

Good You Will Men Only Road Come Know Want Them Who

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot. David Mackay

Air Force People Remember School Pilot Moon Black Black And White Men Become White Sets Our Air Later Flying Those Out TV Impact Classroom Join Could Had Obviously Force Still Test Test Pilot Pilots Were Huge Huge Impact Decided Them Landing Apollo Found Watch

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics. E. T. Bell

Mathematics Dangerous Word Most Obvious

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. George MacDonald

Difficulty No Choice Well Make Where Choice

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. George MacDonald

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. Irvine Welsh

You Hurt People Words Word Power Energy Other Attach Gives Emotional Send Move Inform Much Should Each Away

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. James Beattie

Wise Mad Some Him Wondrous Deemed Believed

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people. Jimmy Reid

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership. Jimmy Reid

Today Song Genius Words Rest Ownership Rich Enjoy Enriched Melodic Claim Collected Responsible Folk Folk Songs Songs He Mainly Robert House Line Were His Scottish Burns Usable Treasure Kept

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. John Boyd Orr

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. John Buchan

Happiness Peace Joy Combined Make Without May Two

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub. John Niven

Me Writing Mechanic Car Just Be Out Tell Could Lift Had New Fellows Cheque Motor Up Replaced Just Dwarf Scribbling Little Show Strapped Pair Actually Four

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in. Karen Gillan

Truth You World Whatever Finding About Within Acting

In my end is my beginning. Mary Queen of Scots

Beginning End

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. Nicola Sturgeon

Life People Matters Walks Those Marriages Private Ultimately Up Personal Different Break Break Up Painful Many Deeply

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. Oswald Chambers

Character Christ Disposition Saint Manifested Means Jesus Jesus Christ

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