Mackellar Quotes & Sayings

Why do you have to go to the cathedral?' said Leni. K. tried to explain briefly, but he had hardly begun when Leni suddenly said: 'They are hounding you.' K., who could not bear anyone feeling sorry for him unexpectedly or gratuitously, broke off abruptly with just two words; but as he hung up the receiver he said, half to himself and half to the distant woman who could no longer hear him: 'Yes, they are hounding me. — Franz Kafka

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for. — Warren Buffett

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere. — Gretel Ehrlich

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre. — Rafael Cruz

I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside. — Mia Sheridan

If he is strong, then we'll have to be quick and clever," she said in a cheerful tone."A bit of trickery may be needed as well."
"Ach, ye sound like a Highlander," he said. "In Gaelic we say, an ten ach mbionn laidir ni follair do bheith glic." He who is not strong must be cunning. — Margaret Mallory

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. — Maggie Gallagher

My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love and hate. They were not tender and violent. They never offered me the world and handed me hell. They were constant: I miss them purely. — Maggie MacKellar

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought ... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really. — Judy Horacek

Thank you for taking such good care of her. She hasn't been doing a very good job of that herself." "Grandma." Glancing at Emily, Carter smiled. "That's going to change. Right, Emily?" "Broken cisterns?" A sense of accomplishment shot through him and surfaced in a grin. He'd made his point, and Emily obviously saw she needed to take a good long look at her life. — Lorna Seilstad

Instead of worrying about what others think of you, you should be worried about why you're worried about what others think of you. — Anonymous

I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner. — Margaret Stohl

In classic covenant theology, then, the questions of Gentile inclusion in the people of God, the removal of boundary markers, and the fulfillment of the promise of Abraham's worldwide family are addressed. However, they are the consequence of justification. In Wright's approach, the ecclesiological question is the main thing and justification is a consequence. Yet apart from the legal basis that justification (i.e. imputation) provides, the union of Jew and Gentile in Christ is suspended in midair. P. 23 — Michael S. Horton

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk. — John Redwood

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. — Maggie Stiefvater