Mc Mountain Quotes & Sayings

Where did all the creativity go?' she wondered aloud as she pondered the newly rediscovered story of her youth. 'If I was true to myself, would I have ended up living this ordinary life? — Lily Koppel

You do not want to live in a country ruled by people who never have any doubts. To have doubts is human. A horse has no doubts, a grasshopper has no doubts, an ant has no doubts. But a human being stops to think sometimes, and when he thinks, he hears a voice asking quietly, 'Are you certain that you are right? You must be certain before you pull that trigger. You must be certain before you put your knife to that man's throat.'
Would God have given us the power to question if he wanted us to behave like grasshoppers and ants? I am sure God takes pleasure in all the creatures of the world, but I am also sure that his greatest pleasure is a human being who puts his knife away because he is not sure, because a doubt has come into his mind. — Najaf Mazari

At least I know who I am. What I want, — Celeste Ng

It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it. — John Green

The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life — Jim Butcher

She must disappear for a time from the human surface,
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world. — David Foenkinos

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. — Randolph Bourne

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots. — Murray Rothbard

Then I flipped my hair across his face and said, Do you like my hair, baby? It's Winterfresh, like a mountain spring. — Cheyanne Young

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation. — John Cusack

Character is that which can do without success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, all I remember is that while my lawyer went on talking, I could hear through the expanse of chambers and courtrooms an ice cream vendor blowing his tin trumpet out in the street. I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed. The utter pointlessness of whatever I was doing there seized me by the throat, and all I wanted was to get it over with and get back to my cell and sleep. — Albert Camus

It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world. — Larry Fitzgerald

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The only doors that open are the ones you knock on. — Scott Marquart

The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it. — Christine Jennings