M.K. Alexander Quotes

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

The way something looks is the last thing we figure out

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

Fire opens the gates of victory.

To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

NHL is the best league in the world and I feel that I should play in the best league in the world. Money's not an issue and you cannot buy happiness.

Every professional was once an amateur.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Socialism with a human face.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.