M.K. Alexander Quotes

There are people who just haven't done as well in a globalized economy.

The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.

We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

I can't say that I have a biggest inspiration because I look at all positive inspirations. My mom, my dad and my coach, too, inspire me. No one is bigger. I just use it all and take it and use it.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.

Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.

Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it, I think those movies are so funny.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

Israel is near and dear to my heart

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.