Helen Macinnes Quotes

#1. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#2. Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

Horace

#3. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Mel Brooks

#4. We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Brian Cox

#5. Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#6. Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.

Helen MacInnes

#7. They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running.

Ray Bradbury

#8. One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#9. If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

Henry Demarest Lloyd

#10. Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Helen Clark MacInnes

#11. am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.

Helen MacInnes

#12. 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

#13. Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#14. They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can be counted on never to make a blunder.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#17. There are good people, kind people, too. I've got to keep thinking of them. I've got to remember them. There are people who help. Not only people who destroy.

Helen MacInnes

#18. Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.

Al Gore

#19. Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#20. The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#21. to get some brandy for my

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#22. Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#23. And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#24. The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#25. remember the name of the firm which he owned. She

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#26. She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#27. Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Andrzej Wajda