M.K. Alexander Quotes
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
