Mcgillivray Quotes & Sayings

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Looking impressed. She turned and beckoned to a young man of seventeen or eighteen, who had been lurking in the background. He bore such a marked resemblance to his small, wiry, dark-haired father that his identity could scarcely be in doubt. "Manfred," his mother announced proudly. "Mein laddie." Jamie inclined his head in grave acknowledgment. "Mr. McGillivray." "Ah ... your s-servant, sir?" The boy sounded rather dubious about it, but put out his hand to be shaken. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance, sir," Jamie assured him, shaking it. The courtesies duly observed, he looked briefly round at the quiet surroundings, raising one eyebrow. "I had heard that you were suffering some inconvenience wi' regard to a thief-taker. Do I — Diana Gabaldon

Robbie," Jamie assured him. "What's to do, then?" McGillivray, who — Diana Gabaldon

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. — Charles Tupper

Ute McGillivray looked like a Valkyrie on a starchy diet; — Diana Gabaldon

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty. — John Updike

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea. — Allan Kardec

Habits speed time, because when every day is the same, experience shortens and blurs; by contrast, time slows down when habits are interrupted, when the brain must process new information. — Gretchen Rubin

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

You sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall. — Nell Freudenberger

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance. — Mark Stevenson

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. — Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. — Annie Dillard

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. — Benjamin Franklin