Macewen Quotes & Sayings

There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home. — Frederick William Robertson

Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19) — David Eso

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously. — Thomas Keating

Good conversation is very important, dont you think? Its so stimulating and pleasurable if done right. As a doctor it may surprise you how much I've learned on the subject. Its been a long times since I've had a really good conversation and sometimes I nearly ache from wishing someone would stimulate me. But unfortunately I havent met anyone yet who I want to really talk to. — Laurann Dohner

All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one. — Gwendolyn MacEwen

I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes. — Norman MacEwen

Friendship is not a superficial thing; it is understanding the heart's feelings. — Debasish Mridha

Tis a thankless world — Jean Webster

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend

Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought, that there is more to life than that which meets thee eye. — Tania Elizabeth

Many a man never fails because he never tries. — Norman MacEwen

The two areas growing fastest - IP litigation and labor & employment - together make up only 13% of law firm revenue, while the six shrinking segments account for 32% of revenue (note that the practice areas displayed account only for about 75% of total revenue, presumably because displaying them all would require more detail than would be useful). — Bruce Macewen

But it is never over;
nothing ends until we want it to.
Look, in shattered midnights,
On black ice under silver trees,
We are still dancing, dancing. — Gwendolyn MacEwen

Pride blinds us to the reality of our divided nature. — David Brooks

Out of the motorcar (I learned later that this majestic vehicle was a Ford V8) stepped a short, thickset man wearing a smart suit. — Nelson Mandela

Mothers are the first professors in the school of character. — Hugh B. Brown

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. — Jacques Derrida

Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise. — Gwendolyn MacEwen

I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others - but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either. — Aspen Matis