Top 20 Macewen Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I learned how easy it is to give up and become draperies while everyone else is dancing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#3. You must sometimes pay a high price for individuality, especially if you are a woman.
Matthew Quick
#4. I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
Boz Scaggs
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
Robert Breault
#10. I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.
Norman MacEwen
#14. Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
#16. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel
#17. 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
#18. When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
Dennis Weaver
#19. I just reared back and let them go.
Bob Feller
#20. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
Jim Harrison
