M.K. Alexander Quotes
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.
Time is the Mind of Space.
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.
Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.
Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?" Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope, " he said
Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.
What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.
He hadn't known her, didn't know her, of course. There wasn't the time.
We can go and explore different roads in our future, but the past ones are permanent, just like our greatest memories.
It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.
Has anyone sen Mr Snark " "I saw him in the tunnel about 15 minutes ago." "Oh no " wailed Dr Ferman "he will have been atomised." "Oh dear" muttered an MP. "Bye-election.
We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.– Gerald Sider.
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75
They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed.
Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people
Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.
I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!
Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.
The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.
But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.
If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.
He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and took her in his arms, kissing her passionately and urgently.
In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.