Macartney Quotes & Sayings

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. — Tim Macartney-Snape

We need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments — Richard Carlson

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever. — John Muir

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself — Milan Kundera

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. — Paulo Coelho

Clear conscience never fear midnight knocking. — Mahatma Gandhi

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination. — Tim Cope

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old. — Tony Wilson

The people that many saw as 'social outsiders'; that I had seen as 'freaks'. I started to realize that it wasn't about what they had in their bank account but the true value was in the experiences they gained. Their true bank accounts, their memory banks, were crammed high with adventures and experiences, with life events and huge doses of unapologetic fun. — Alastair Macartney

Some daughter of one of the gentry planters, perhaps? Those girls had the domestic virtues. But - he was comfortable enough with his good servants at Fairfield House. His yearnings had little relation to somebody to preside over his household. Somehow, to Cornelis, these young ladies of the planter gentry were not alluring, vital. The most attractive of them, Honoria Macartney, he could hardly imagine beside him perpetually. Honoria had the dead-white skin of the Caucasian creole lady whose face has been screened from the sun since infancy.

("Sweet Grass") — Henry S. Whitehead

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life ... I think I must have been crying for some attention. — Judy Garland

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind — Tim Macartney-Snape

What I'm suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within. — Tim Macartney-Snape