Macsweeney Quotes

#1. No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever.

John Cassian

#2. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Few things focus the mind like fear.

Catherine Tate

#4. You'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

L.M. Montgomery

#5. Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species.

Tom Perrotta

#6. People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

#7. When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know - by what right?

Ayn Rand

#8. Fourteen minutes later he had finished. He had presented the

Jo Nesbo

#9. Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.

Elizabeth George

#10. When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

Larry Kramer

#11. Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. I have no detectable hair style.

David Spade