Macrorie Telling Quotes & Sayings

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play. — Jason Aldean

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money. — Greenpeace

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things. — Diana Gabaldon

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage. — Charles Caleb Colton

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips. — Elayne Boosler

You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive. — Michael Hyatt

No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religions are living. They are changing and evolving. Islam is fossilized. It allows no change. It can't be reformed. — Ali Sina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want. — Albert Cossery