M.K. Alexander Quotes

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.