Margaret Mcfarland Quotes & Sayings

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich. — Jeremy Seabrook

People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision. — Israelmore Ayivor

Let's say what we mean: animals are bled, skinned, and dismembered while conscious. It happens all the time, and the industry and the government know it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus. — John Piper

I grew up with all kinds of people. — Vin Diesel

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 6:6 — Anonymous

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all. — Eugene B. Sledge

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best. — Tim Hansel

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent. — Harvey MacKay

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward. — Nancy E. Turner

the Cameron Highlanders were ordered to muddy their spats because they were a dazzling white target for the Hun. Within 24 hours the order was countermanded by the Big Chief Cameron of Lochiel who presumably didn't want his Highlanders to look slovenly when dead. — Phyllida Law

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon. — David Pajo

Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations. — Bryant McGill

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives. — Nikolai Gogol

When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion. — Lord Chesterfield