M.K. Alexander Quotes

All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

The grave has a door on its inner side.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

Time trouble is blunder time.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Never find fault with the absent.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.