Maccubbinstone Quotes & Sayings

The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being ... — J. G. A. Pocock

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Wow hav u read beastly its really awesome i mean u wont want 2 put it down ever — Alex Flinn

Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another ... Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic [i.e., bacterial] to eukaryotic [i.e., plant and animal] cells, let alone throughout the whole array of higher multicellular organisms. — Alan H. Linton

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants. — Eddie Marsan

That's the worst ... or the best ... of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable ... and succeeding ... even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. — L.M. Montgomery

If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person. — Matthew Ford

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment. — Tina Yothers

It would be pleasant to be drunk. — Anne Sexton

For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was. — Dorothy Day

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone makes choices, and no one knows what may be the end of any of them. If my own was to blame for many things, it was not to blame for everything. Nor was harm all that had come of it. — Diana Gabaldon

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. — Diana Ross