P.T. Forsyth Quotes
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.
The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.
On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
