Macintyre After Virtue Quotes

#1. I can only answer the question "What am I to do?" if I can answer the prior question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?" Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

Wesley Hill

#2. I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning,
A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning.
But at night when she bloomed
I felt blissfully doomed.
Far from shore, in danger of drowning.

Julia Glass

#3. The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Robert Barron

#4. And right action is freedom from past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. The Dry Salvages

T. S. Eliot

#5. During her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying.

Laura Esquivel

#6. We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait.

Kanye West

#7. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. Books can be dangerous. You never know when they're going to blow up, and what they'll take out when they do. Why do you think dictators are so fond of burning them? One idea can lead to another, and then before you know it, people are going crazy having thoughts and opinions and stuff.

Amanda Weaver

#9. 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Spark Matsunaga

#10. The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

Pat Paulsen

#11. It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Bill Watterson

#12. R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Aretha Franklin

#13. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby

#14. That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

Danny Gatton