M.K. Alexander Quotes

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Passions are the gales of life.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.