Makovic Quotes & Sayings

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. — Arthur C. Clarke

Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another. — Andrea Speed

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death - losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses." Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: "Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. — Atul Gawande

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger. — Marilyn Manson

Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it. — Adoniram Judson

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem. — Jeff Henderson

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first. — Robin Sharma

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made. — F. Sionil Jose

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. — James Allen

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian