Malcolm Sayer Quotes & Sayings

If you do something to benefit one person, that is an absolute gain, and its relative insignificance in the wider scheme is irrelevant. Benefit two people without concomitant harm to others - or a village, tribe, city, class, nation, society or civilisation - and the benefits are scalable, arithmetic. There is no excuse beyond fatalistic self-indulgence and sheer laziness for doing nothing. — Iain Banks

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

God creates the destiny of every nation according to the times — Sunday Adelaja

Therapy can't erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. - Duke — Stephanie Witter

Kuntaw died on the most beautiful day in a thousand years. The October air was sweet and every faint breath a pleasure. Wind stirred and he said, "Our wind reaching me here." A small cloud formed in the west. "Our small cloud coming to me." The hours passed and the small cloud formed a dark wall and approached. A drop fell, another, many, and Kuntaw said, "Our rain wetting my face." His people came near him, drawing him into their eyes, and he said, "Now . . . what . . ." The sun came out, the brilliant world sparkled, susurration, liquid flow, stems of striped grass what was it what was it the limber swish of a released branch. What, now what. Kuntaw opened his mouth, said nothing, and let the sunlight enter him. — Annie Proulx

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian." — Rose Bird

We cannot know what the next move of life towards us will be; but life also cannot know what our next move towards life will be! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. — John Ortberg

Plot is a chain of cause-and-effect relationships that constantly create a pattern of unified action and behavior. Plot involves the reader in the game of "Why? — Ronald B. Tobias

Be true to your own highest convictions. — William Ellery Channing

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. — Aldous Huxley

If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love. — Iyanla Vanzant

If you desire the magical powers that led the 808 Tanuki, which are trapped in the old cave of Kumayama, say the words, Look into others' heart of hearts with your own heart to be destined to lead those who are not human. — Hiroshi Shiibashi