M.K. Alexander Quotes
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"
In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it
Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.
I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
God hath his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell, He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him he loved so well.
He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.
Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.