Mcewen Quotes & Sayings

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. — John Henry Newman

What are the people like? Do the women wear plaid skirts, cable-knit sweaters? Are the men in hacking jackets? What's a hacking jacket?" "They've grown comfortable with their money," I said. "They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little." "I have trouble imagining death at that income level," she said. "Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands. — Don DeLillo

Fear accompanies only the possibility of death. Calm ushers its certainty. — Scott McEwen

We just went out for dinner. We didn't participate in a Roman orgy, I swear. — Victoria Dahl

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. — Christian McEwen

We are told that religion says: 'God gave us brains' - and then they also quickly add: '-but God doesn't want us to use them'. Ridiculous. — Christina Engela

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune! — Robert Ley

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous. — Seth Grahame-Smith

your first idea is unlikely to be the best, so you should be optimising for speed of iteration rather than quality of prototype. — Adrian McEwen

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo — Amy Tan

Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve — Robin Sharma

She was downstairs now in the living room watching TV' with a mug of hot chocolate and a fried egg and pineappel

pineappel?

yes pineappel- sandwich. — Katharine McEwen

If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate — Stephen Colbert

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes! — Leila Aboulela

Logic is cheap, however some people are broke. — Lori McEwen

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that. — Jane Yolen

Please don't make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.
If you need proof: Twain, Adams, Vonnegut, McEwen, Sagan, Shakespeare, Dickens. For a start.
You don't need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don't need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don't have to claim a soul to promote compassion.
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. — Tim Minchin

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics. — Emanuel Celler

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood. — Christian McEwen

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. — George Orwell

Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment, notice, and enjoy. — Christian McEwen

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. — Peter Diamandis

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed. — Christian McEwen