Mcmurry Quotes & Sayings

The concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression. — Neil Postman

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.' — Jimmy Fallon

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

Many parents as well as teachers refuse to place this responsibility upon children for fear of the mistakes that they will make. On account of this fear they make it as nearly as possible unnecessary for children to judge freely, by giving them arbitrary rules to follow, or by directing them exactly what they shall do each moment. This cultivates poor judgment by depriving children of the very practice that will make their judgments reliable; it prevents the school requirements from corresponding to those in life outside. — Frank Morton McMurry

Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained. — Frank Morton McMurry

Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. — Frank Morton McMurry

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it. — Jacob K. Javits

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be. — Joel Osteen

Living, in the case of animals, thus means getting on, and any ability, whether physical or intellectual, is of importance to the extent that it makes such getting on successful. — Frank Morton McMurry

Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn't been as bad as he had thought. — Gabrielle Zevin

Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents. — Frank Morton McMurry

Breaking up is hard to do. But, bustin him in the head ain't that easy, either. — Lois Greiman

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. — Frank Morton McMurry

There is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets. — Frank Morton McMurry