Hugh Maclennan Quotes

#1. This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze.

Hugh MacLennan

#2. DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

Gustave Flaubert

#3. ....we have discovered a great social secret in Canada. We have contrived to solve problems which would ruin other countries merely by ignoring their existence.

Hugh MacLennan

#4. Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

Hugh MacLennan

#5. The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Hugh MacLennan

#6. Raven pressed his palm against his forehead. God. You guys sound like you're already married. This is going to be a disaster.

C.L.Stone

#7. Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

Craig Lancaster

#8. The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Hugh MacLennan

#9. My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

Mason Cooley

#10. The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

Hugh MacLennan

#11. When you meet someone
so different from yourself,
in a good way,
you don't even have to kiss
to have fireworks go off.

Lisa Schroeder

#12. Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Hugh MacLennan

#13. Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.

Brian South

#14. The noble-minded do not thrust others aside in order to make their way in the world. But then they themselves are ultimately thrust aside by the advancing tide.

Takashi Hiraide

#15. At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Tasha Alexander

#16. On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Horace Mann

#17. I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Paul Auster

#18. Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but it turns far too many of them into tigers.

Hugh MacLennan

#19. I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Tim McGraw

#20. Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Hugh MacLennan

#21. A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition.

Steve Maraboli

#22. He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I suppose, that he wanted her body to want his. It would have been beneath his intellectual dignity to admit that he also wanted her soul to like his own soul.

Hugh MacLennan

#23. I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#24. Happiness annihilates time.

Hugh MacLennan

#25. Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

Hugh MacLennan

#26. If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

Kevin Richardson

#27. People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.

Hugh MacLennan

#28. In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Hugh MacLennan