Mckinnells Quotes & Sayings

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy. — Winston Churchill

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time. — Seth MacFarlane

Indeed, anger can be thought of as anti-joy. — William B. Irvine

Despite the damaging effects of mounting criticism, we saw some lovely examples of the triumph of the human spirit. Al's greatest trouble was accustoming his people to the concept that each had been given at least one gift of the Holy Spirit to be used for ministry in the community. It seemed to be foreign to them. For those who actually experimented with expressing what was locked inside there was delight and fulfillment. — David R. Mains

The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak. — Anthony Doerr

Now, if you ask me, what's going on is that we're all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another. — Anne Lamott

Emma: You can demand that Pettibone retain my services, but you cannot make similar demands of the parents of the students. They will not entrust the education of their daughters to a woman who has removed her clothing for an artist, no matter how exalted that artist may be. Pettibone would become a school without students. No that avenue is closed to me now.
Nicholas: Women disrobe for men other than their husbands every day.
Emma: But they are not on exhibition in the Royal Academy.
Nicholas: what of extenuating circumstances?
Emma: You make no sense — Donna MacMeans

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise. — Sam Harris

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. — Loren Eiseley

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness — Orrin Woodward

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham