Top 20 Macewen Quotes

#1. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.

Jim Harrison

#2. I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Feller

#3. When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Dennis Weaver

#4. But it is never over;
nothing ends until we want it to.
Look, in shattered midnights,
On black ice under silver trees,
We are still dancing, dancing.

Gwendolyn MacEwen

#5. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Elie Wiesel

#6. Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)

David Eso

#7. All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.

Gwendolyn MacEwen

#8. Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.

Norman MacEwen

#10. Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.

Gwendolyn MacEwen

#11. I learned how easy it is to give up and become draperies while everyone else is dancing.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were ... well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.

Nelson DeMille

#13. I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Norman MacEwen

#15. I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#16. There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Robert Breault

#17. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

Michael Scanlon

#18. Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#19. I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Boz Scaggs

#20. You must sometimes pay a high price for individuality, especially if you are a woman.

Matthew Quick

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