Mcininch Foundation Quotes & Sayings

What exactly is "midair"? Is there some other part of air besides the "mid" part? — George Carlin

I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion."
"Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right to speak of discretion rather than honour. Discretion looks to the consequences of actions - honour looks to the action itself, and is an instinct rather than a virtue. After all, it is possible you might have trained him to be discreet. — Elizabeth Gaskell

To the delight of the young and young at heart, life is an open invitation of discovery. - Tina Donovan — Bryant McGill

Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage. — Dada Bhagwan

Delegate but don't abdicate — Derek Sivers

It was always good to know that things in the field really were the way the officers had said they'd be, if only because this so rarely turned out to be the case. — Django Wexler

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. — Michael Shermer

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude. — James Van Praagh

Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society. — Philip Kitcher

I just ... this wasn't my life. Things like this didn't happen to me, and if they did, it never lasted. Girls like me didn't get guys like Cade. — Cora Carmack

There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher — Robin S. Sharma

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown. — Chandrakanth Natekar

Listen like a student.
Learn like a scholar.
Live like a sage.
Love like a saint. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure ... and I don't really have those qualities! — Jaime Murray

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn. — Bertolt Brecht