Mccluskey Quotes

#1. Alan McCluskey
Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Alan McCluskey

#2. This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

Karl Liebknecht

#3. I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#4. Please forgive me. I couldn't always follow you in your wild escapades, just like I can't follow you now. But then as now, my thoughts and heart go with you. I hope that you finally meet the love of your life in Paradise. Try not to tease the angels.

Alan McCluskey

#5. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

Alan McCluskey

#6. Beyond speech and mind,
Into the river of ever-effulgent Light
My heart dives.
Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,
Are opened wide.

Sri Chinmoy

#7. If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

Len McCluskey

#8. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

Alan McCluskey

#9. Peter couldn't help remembering the stirring moment when he and Kate had sung back into life the chorus of health and well-being in Andrew's body; the base chord that hummed in all living beings, distinct to each person but closely linked together.

Alan McCluskey

#10. The boy wanted to be accepted as he was, to be reassured that he was not a monster, to be loved by someone, not as the result of force or desire, but through shared feelings and closeness.

Alan McCluskey

#11. It was a moonless night, although the cloudless sky was ablaze with stars. Whatever the circumstances, she always found the starlit night sky profoundly moving.

Alan McCluskey

#12. Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

#14. Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

Alan McCluskey

#15. Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Alan McCluskey

#16. A stylized sun and moon, joined by a horizontal bar, floated above a country divided in two by a river that snaked between them.

Alan McCluskey

#17. May those that are excluded because they are different find a home such as this in which they are accepted and appreciated as they really are." "Amen," they chorused.

Alan McCluskey

#18. Despair is a ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Alan McCluskey

#19. Dead! He had known. Of course he had known.

Alan McCluskey

#20. But if you stray too far on the side of distance and strictness, you end up hard and unapproachable. So you need to be open to unexpected things and you need to be accessible to those people who are honest and forthright with you, especially if they take risks trying to do what their heart dictates.

Alan McCluskey

#21. People used to recognize it as mood.
Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.
When you feel sad, just do long running.
Then you will know that even mood can be governed.

Toba Beta

#22. Anger is unpleasant, for all concerned," John said. "We'd prefer not to have anything to do with it, but it is the expression of a force that insists on being heard and we need to heed what it is trying to say.

Alan McCluskey

#23. When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then you have more moral fiber than most adults. Free will is one of the pillars of being human.

Alan McCluskey

#24. He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

Alan McCluskey

#25. Dream of me, my love, and I'll be with you all night.

Alan McCluskey

#26. If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

Paul Arden

#27. I've said it before, and by gosh, I'll say it again - don't be afraid to toot your own horn.

Emlyn Chand

#28. I was afraid that if she went on much longer, her fingers would scrape away my skin, rip my flesh, crush my bones. The pillow was damp with saliva, and I wanted to scream.

Yoko Ogawa

#29. You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.

Zig Ziglar

#30. I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Miles Davis

#31. Don't fret none, darlin'. I got your back."
"You said that in Budapest. I still have the scars, too.

Shelly Laurenston

#32. Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

Jonathan Stroud