Mac Haik Ford Quotes & Sayings

Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard. — Michael Robotham

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer. — Jill Soloway

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it. — Ray Lamontagne

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. — Tama J. Kieves

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. — Cliff Stearns

For decades, [Toyota] used the practice of asking why five times in succession as a means of getting to the root of a particular manufacturing problem. — Anonymous

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot. — Michelle Branch

You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders. — Mary Beth Whitehead

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are right now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. It's not easy to watch or personally experience a marriage on the verge of divorce, or a child battling cancer, or a betrayal of the worst kind, or dreams lost in the dust, or overwhelming feelings of despair or emptiness. But these things are real. And hurting believers whose lives are in tatters need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church. — Sheila Walsh

We had good long talks about my writing in the days that followed. "Write of things you know, Julie; familiar, simple things that you have experienced; things that have touched you deeply."
"But nothing's ever happened to me. I've just lived here with Aunt Cordelia and you most of my life, I've gone to school, visited Father
oh, sure, I'm in love with Danny, but that's something we've grown into
very wonderful for us, but not very exciting for the rest of the world. How can a person who has lived as quiet a life as I have find anything to write about?"
"Then you do have a problem. If you haven't lived long enough to have felt anything deeply, than you are in the same position I
as many would-be writers are. You've nothing to say. So take up crocheting. — Irene Hunt

Empathy and joy of life are closely connected. For most of us, deep and intense moments of happiness are often, if not always, tied to deep and intense contact with others.
Training our empathetic abilities is therefore also training joy of life. — Iben Dissing Sandahl