James Hilton
James Hilton
James Hiltonwas an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1900
heart rights people
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
book people house
In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.
mistake believe people
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
people might too-much
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
ability confident copyright enormous forward law leap project represents search
We are confident that this project complies with copyright law. This project represents an enormous leap forward in the public's ability to search and find knowledge.
change computers english-novelist goes neutrality
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
either information
They will see information about how to find an in-copyright work, either through a bookstore, a publisher or (the closest) library,
stupid laziness virtue
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
running war believe
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
believe too-much governing
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
two clouds lasts
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
giving stories remarkable
It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
passion exhaustion
The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
believe attractive evidence
When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.