Macneill Group Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable. — Bram Stoker

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy. The idea is false on the evidence. Like shit, change happens. — Stephen King

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
[Lat., Et metus ille foras praeceps Acheruntis agundus,
Funditis humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo,
Omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam
Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit.] — Lucretius

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty. — Mason Cooley

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture. — Carl R. Rogers

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. — David Wolfe

When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past. — Hsing Yun

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. — Athol Fugard

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others. — Thomas Aquinas

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. — Isabel Allende

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions. — Thomas Jefferson

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat. — Gwen Stefani