Mclaughlin Group Quotes & Sayings

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him. — Wayne W. Dyer

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. — Mignon McLaughlin

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible. — Joseph Addison

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat. — Dick Bennett

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it. — Sarah Jessica Parker

I devised a sort of strategy for any sort of discussion that was over my head: I became the moderator. If you're the group's John McLaughlin, you can fake being informed while still being involved by deploying a few pointed but vague questions. If a person is holding forth and another is twitching to interrupt, jump in and ask her why she disagrees. Ask follow-up questions. Nod vigorously while saying things like 'in what sense?' or 'How, specifically?' That way, you smoothly take control of the conversation without actually contributing anything even remotely worthwhile or informative. — Jancee Dunn

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children ... Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts. — Charlotte Mason

Now that I was lying safely in my bed, it had become much easier to be brave. — Marina Nemat

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. — Audrey Tautou