Mcnearney Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and — Henning Mankell

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place. — Carl Sagan

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician. — Douglas Alexander

For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes. — Pema Chodron

I'd never considered myself socially retarded until that moment. — C.J. Roberts

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music. — Kim Tae-yeon

It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights - if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different. — Toni Morrison

Life is only beginning for you now ... since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know what may be around the next bend in the road — L.M. Montgomery

Real date or not, that was rude, and disrespectful, and I was ten seconds away from telling those girls that he was a post-op-transsexual and all his parts were' not in working order. — Chris Cannon

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks. — Chuck Berry

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. — Helen Clark MacInnes