Robert Morrison Maciver Quotes

#1. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#2. The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#3. There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

Alan Paton

#4. The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#5. In terms of facial creams or lotions, I try to switch it up and stay as natural as possible. l like Le Mer facial cream for when I have an event. It's very rich and sometimes too rich for some people, but I like it.

Sanaa Lathan

#6. A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Tony Campolo

#7. No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness - that not-yet-being-settled feeling - and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.

Jonathan Goldstein

#9. Read them, Anna. Really read them.

Sarah Ockler

#10. I just want to do really good work.

Chaske Spencer

#11. Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Lou Holtz

#12. It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.

Marian Keyes

#13. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Michele Bachmann

#14. It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#15. But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

Jane Austen

#16. What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Sukarno

#17. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton