English Quotes

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.