Mcphail Quotes

#1. No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858 - 1865): 'their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi' it.

J.K. Rowling

#2. thoughts and dreams. Surely my mother, as we kneaded the dough for our bread and placed it in tins, must realise that my thoughts were not on the spongy dough but on the silhouette of McPhail

Kate Mildenhall

#3. So much of everything that we deal with is simply happening within ourselves.

Melissa McPhail

#4. The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb

Melissa McPhail

#5. Violent hatred of one's neighbors gives a man a permanent sense of purpose.

Melissa McPhail

#6. With so many people in the world that long for someone to love and care for, why is it those who couldn't care less are those who are blessed?

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#7. Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there!

David McPhail

#8. Because dreams are the difference between living ... and existing ...

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#9. No time spent on hopes and dreams is ever wasted.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#10. I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Winston Churchill

#11. Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Michael Ignatieff

#12. The eye of your mind - your intelligence; the eye of your heart - your conscience; and the eye of your soul - your instinct.

Melissa McPhail

#13. One would think wisdom brings one to err less, but logic dictates that wisdom is more often gained through our errors than through those choices which meet with simple conclusions.

Melissa McPhail

#14. There are three great uncertainties in life: weather, wind and women

Melissa McPhail

#15. You don't win a game by focusing on things you cannot control. You win it by focusing on those things that you can.

Melissa McPhail

#16. All good men are cleaved by the struggle between duty and desire

Melissa McPhail

#17. lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

David J. Anderson

#18. I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Rumi

#19. The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#20. On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#21. Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

Kabir

#22. Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages.

Melissa McPhail

#23. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That's my motto.

Melissa McPhail

#24. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

Melissa McPhail

#25. You put too much importance on the man that you once were and not enough on the one you are becoming.

Melissa McPhail

#26. I hate it when realism intrudes on my dreams.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#27. In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

#28. Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#29. Aspire to be a better person today than you were yesterday and you will be heading in the right direction.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#30. I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

J. B. Smoove

#31. Bury your differences, or bury your dead. Kara O'Keefe, Eternal Wanderings

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#32. Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Heather Graham

#33. All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself.

Melissa McPhail

#34. People who claim something cannot be done should not get in the way of the ones who are doing it.

Melissa McPhail

#35. A man may rule his household,
And a King govern his land,
But Death walks in the thrall of Cephrael's Hand.

Melissa McPhail

#36. Mom asked Dad "where is Mickey?" Dad said that the hogs are him, that's when the pot of beans went flying through the air. Uncle Leroy said, "I think I'll go back home now.

Mickey R. Mullen

#37. Good enough'isn't enough.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#38. A man had no right to be this fiercely sexual without even trying.

Ilona Andrews

#39. In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

Vasily Grossman