M.K. Alexander Quotes

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.