Macavoy Quotes & Sayings

The rose," he announced. "Loveliest and most formidable of flowers. Arms of York and Lancaster. In medieval times, a symbol of Jesus. Always, it has meant, beauty, love, peace ..."
He presented the bud to Martha Macnamara. It lay resting on his long fingers until she scooped it up. She sniffed it and held it up to the light.
"Symbol? What's a symbol? This is a rose." She smiled and walked on,. — R.A. MacAvoy

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved
pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community. — Desmond Tutu

She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face. — R.A. MacAvoy

Those who truly know, knows
those who don't, will learn if they ask — Rose Blue

Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He — R.A. MacAvoy

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass! — Meshell Ndegeocello

All the time God ever spent on you was wasted, an' your mother's had the same luck. I s'pose God's used to having creatures 'at He's made go wrong, but I pity your mother. Goodness knows a woman suffers an' works enough over her children, an' then to fetch a boy to man's estate an' have him, of his own free will an' accord, be a liar! Young man, truth is the cornerstone o' the temple o' character. Nobody can put up a good buildin' without a solid foundation; an' you can't do solid character buildin' with a lie at the base. Man 'at's a liar ain't fit for anything! Can't trust him in no sphere or relation o' life; or in any way, shape, or manner. You passed out your word like a man, an' like a man I took it an' went off trustin' you, an' you failed me. — Gene Stratton-Porter

But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow

But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right. — R.A. MacAvoy

This is rock 'n' roll, Mags. It don't understand discreet. - Julian MacAvoy — Toni Kenyon

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone. — R.A. MacAvoy

But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still." Martha — R.A. MacAvoy

No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle! — Elizabeth George

Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences... — R.A. MacAvoy

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man. — Hank Snow

Fire was Mr. Long's chosen element; he had no sympathy with the rain. Yet he knew water was preordained to win, in the end. In man's end, at least. No vault or sepulcher could keep out the damp forever, and even ashes dissolved. — R.A. MacAvoy

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves. — Matthew Henry

Well, I admit it. I had the greatest respect for the Afghan people, even while I was shooting and killing them. I still do. You could even say I love them. I like their songs and prayers, as peaceful and timeless as their mountains. — Svetlana Alexievich

What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her next act consistently? Without that, what was left but blind chance and leaves blown meaninglessly through the trees? — R.A. MacAvoy

Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear. — R.A. MacAvoy

There was that odor about her: not a sweetness, exactly, but a wildness suggesting breezes that have touched cold water and living wood. — R.A. MacAvoy

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. — Thomas Carlyle