Mcphail Quotes & Sayings

The eye of your mind - your intelligence; the eye of your heart - your conscience; and the eye of your soul - your instinct. — Melissa McPhail

I hate it when realism intrudes on my dreams. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That's my motto. — Melissa McPhail

Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

No time spent on hopes and dreams is ever wasted. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there! — David McPhail

No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858 - 1865): 'their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi' it. — J.K. Rowling

People who claim something cannot be done should not get in the way of the ones who are doing it. — Melissa McPhail

With so many people in the world that long for someone to love and care for, why is it those who couldn't care less are those who are blessed? — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Good enough'isn't enough. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

One would think wisdom brings one to err less, but logic dictates that wisdom is more often gained through our errors than through those choices which meet with simple conclusions. — Melissa McPhail

Ali gasped and could only pray the rumbling of the earth masked the sound as the dune beneath him shook and the sands flowed away to each side like a curtain. He waited for the outcry that would spell his doom, certain all eyes would spy him, but all he heard was a hiss, as of steam escaping, followed by rock grinding as it shifted. Slowly, the world around him settled. Ali heard the men below dismount, then walk the camelids forward into what he had no doubt was his grandfather's secret place, now den to what were clearly thieves and murderers. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

All good men are cleaved by the struggle between duty and desire — Melissa McPhail

You don't win a game by focusing on things you cannot control. You win it by focusing on those things that you can. — Melissa McPhail

Time thins the cloth of memory. As the ages pass, its rich colors fade. Strong wool is beaten by the elements until the pattern of its lesson disintegrates, leaving holes in the truth it was meant to carry on. Even the stains of blood bend and bleed, leaving but faded blotches without meaning, mere shadows of lessons that came before, their warnings lost within the obscure impression that remains. — Melissa McPhail

All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself. — Melissa McPhail

So much of everything that we deal with is simply happening within ourselves. — Melissa McPhail

Since when did historians concern themselves with facts?" The zanthyr leaned back on one elbow and waved his dagger idly. "Once in a while some historian will stumble over the truth, but most of the time he'll pick himself up again and continue on as if nothing has happened. And yet, some things ... " He straightened and settled Ean a telling look. "Some truths are better left to myth and legend, Prince of Dannym. — Melissa McPhail

Bury your differences, or bury your dead. Kara O'Keefe, Eternal Wanderings — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

You put too much importance on the man that you once were and not enough on the one you are becoming. — Melissa McPhail

Aspire to be a better person today than you were yesterday and you will be heading in the right direction. — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

There are three great uncertainties in life: weather, wind and women — Melissa McPhail

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death. — Melissa McPhail

thoughts and dreams. Surely my mother, as we kneaded the dough for our bread and placed it in tins, must realise that my thoughts were not on the spongy dough but on the silhouette of McPhail — Kate Mildenhall

Violent hatred of one's neighbors gives a man a permanent sense of purpose. — Melissa McPhail

Because dreams are the difference between living ... and existing ... — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

A man may rule his household,
And a King govern his land,
But Death walks in the thrall of Cephrael's Hand. — Melissa McPhail

The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb — Melissa McPhail

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are. — Melissa McPhail

Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages. — Melissa McPhail