Mccanney Quotes & Sayings

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair. — George Peele

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative. — John Howard

He was a great thundering paradox of a man. — William Manchester

The problem with you middle-class gay guys is, you pass for white. You move to the metropolitan gay centres, and you're more or less closeted--"private", you'd call it--when you step outside the ghetto. You assimilate yourselves, and suddenly you've got property to protect and money invested. I ask you, what impelled the militants of the civil rights movement of the sixties? You know what impelled them? They had nothing to lose. That's how they could brave the police dogs and the fire hoses. Even torture and death. Could you have done that? — Ethan Mordden

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. — H.L. Mencken

You live you die and death not ends it. — Jim Morrison

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience. — Joel T. McGrath

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege

Pretended grace from natural goodness, fancied grace from priestly hands, or imaginary grace from outward ceremonies will never serve the true saint of God; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon