Mckiernan Quotes & Sayings

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood. — Henry Ward Beecher

We should be sensitive to the culture with which we live. — Asa Don Brown

I'll say this, Arik: the old man's warning proved to be true - things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -"
"If it's the demon you speak of," interjected Rith, as she stepped back into the ruin, Lyssa following after, "she was not even a toothless old hag. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all? ...
Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams. — Dennis L. McKiernan

In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women. — Bernie Sanders

The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. — Dennis L. McKiernan

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Better players make you a better player. — John C. Maxwell

Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether. — Dennis L. McKiernan

In July 1944, General George Patton led the Third Army breakout from Normandy to liberate France. It was called Operation Cobra. Almost sixty years later, another Third Army commander, Lieutenant General David McKiernan, sought to evoke the illustrious episode. He named the drive to Baghdad Cobra II. — Anonymous

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. — Marty Rubin

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle. — Le Corbusier

Despite many difficulties and hardships, I've always liked my odds ... — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.] — Rodney Bolt

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. — Patrick Lencioni

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong. — Rory Kinnear

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better. — Dennis L. McKiernan

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident. — Elizabeth Bibesco

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem. — Dennis L. McKiernan

It's all connected you know — Dennis L. McKiernan

Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about. — Evan Peters

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. — Jan Morris

But Mithgar ... Mithgar is yet wild, tempestuous, unkept, savage, turbulent, exciting. We come here to feel alive. — Dennis L. McKiernan