FastSaying

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.


George MacDonald Fraser

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall...
JAMES C. DOBSON Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people ...
MARY FIELD BELENKY Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as...
FERGUS HENDERSON I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea...
PUSHA T I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it ...
RICHARD EYRE Some people think it's just easier to drag a journalist before a judge and try to get that informati...
CHUCK GRAHAM I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to w...
FERGUS HENDERSON In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the livin...
RICHARD MATHESON That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you...
MICHAEL J. FOX Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody h...
ZACHARY QUINTO I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don...
JUSTIN HAYWARD The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans go...
JOHN MAJOR I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gr...
ROBERT BROWNING I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at m...
HALEY REINHART I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know ...
LAWRENCE JACKSON Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I jus...
JOANNA NEWSOM I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I...
PAULA PELL I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
JACK ANTONOFF I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the j...
BARBARA DEMING I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and c...
MADONNA CICCONE We want to provide readers with a very clean and fast way to get to information, whether they trust ...
BILL GRUESKIN I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who he...
FRANK MCCOURT Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year...
EBERHARD WEBER I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it b...
ADRIAN GRENIER Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult a...
MAL PEET It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the ...
GORDON NEUFELD I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors t...
VINCE FLYNN It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most i...
RICHARD D. JAMES When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But...
DAN QUAYLE The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty...
RUTH ST. DENIS The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
BILL O'BRIEN It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children&...
RINGO STARR We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt...
DARELL HAMMOND Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their ow...
LADY GAGA I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do th...
ANNIE POTTS And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the cl...
GARY OLDMAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to ...
DAVE MORRIS When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks ...
STEVE BREEN The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridde...
MIDGE DECTER There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but t...
JOHAN CRUYFF Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's ju...
COLIN WILSON I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you...
TAYLOR DAYNE When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a com...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That ge...
DIEDRICH BADER In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing r...
JOHN BRADSHAW Our conference is focused on helping authors be more successful in selling their books. Although Inf...
TOM GREGORY I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what th...
NINA BAWDEN It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom a...
JUDITH BUTLER In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it'...
WAYNE DYER There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. ...
PAUL WALKER They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio intervi...
ADAM GARCIA With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' Th...
PAUL GIAMATTI Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run aro...
GERO MIESENBOCK Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some p...
HARI KONDABOLU Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will ...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost ...
JAMIE BELL I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of ...
J. D. SALINGER I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea...
KAREN JOY FOWLER When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll...
BRETT ELDREDGE With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advanc...
FELIX DENNIS I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my ...
KATE HUDSON I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creatin...
KAREN GILLAN It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require e...
JEB BUSH It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down...
ANDREW DOST I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually ...
PALOMA FAITH I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own...
MOSHE SAFDIE I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes...
MARA WILSON I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creati...
AUSTIN MAHONE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and...
E. M. FORSTER People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have comm...
LEE GREENWOOD Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g...
JAKE OWEN Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have the...
ALIA BHATT I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recogn...
CASS MCCOMBS Parents are experts on their own kids, so they should trust their instincts. I've seen it both ways;...
LUCY NORVELL To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regul...
FALK HENTSCHEL You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubtin...
BEN KATCHOR The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you d...
BAT FOR LASHES It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity...
TAJ MAHAL It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under thei...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son...
BEN HOPKINS I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot....
RAMI MALEK It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem...
BIANCA KAJLICH I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know...
STEVE CARELL That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM

More George MacDonald Fraser

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minist...
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts an...
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried...
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to c...
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER The rumors from the astrophysics community are that they are very fearful that the money will be dir...
GEORGE FRASER Our architecture is set up so that you can stream any media through any transport, from any protocol...
GEORGE FRASER And in terms of online music subscription services, we are a big part of the MusicNet service which ...
GEORGE FRASER It's not so surprising that BT has agreements with both (RealNetworks and Microsoft). BT tries to be...
GEORGE FRASER BT is in fact the first to deploy our platform and have been using it for about a month.
GEORGE FRASER The iVelocity network has the technology to automatically direct end-users to the nearest available ...
GEORGE FRASER Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerfu...
GEORGE MACDONALD Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
GEORGE MACDONALD Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cult...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
GEORGE MACDONALD The principal part of faith is patience.
GEORGE MACDONALD Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
GEORGE MACDONALD I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of toda...
GEORGE MACDONALD Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
GEORGE MACDONALD You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God w...
GEORGE MACDONALD Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...
GEORGE MACDONALD The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face th...
GEORGE MACDONALD A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he kn...
GEORGE MACDONALD Attitudes are more important than facts.
GEORGE MACDONALD What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would....
GEORGE MACDONALD Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
GEORGE MACDONALD We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
GEORGE MACDONALD The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
GEORGE MACDONALD It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
GEORGE MACDONALD Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
GEORGE MACDONALD Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to...
GEORGE MACDONALD Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give...
GEORGE MACDONALD Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
GEORGE MACDONALD To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
GEORGE MACDONALD If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of...
GEORGE MACDONALD How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
GEORGE MACDONALD Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
GEORGE MACDONALD As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
GEORGE MACDONALD I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.
GEORGE MACDONALD The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
GEORGE MACDONALD You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
GEORGE MACDONALD The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if t...
GEORGE MACDONALD O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything bu...
GEORGE MACDONALD You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half bra...
GEORGE MACDONALD And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them
GEORGE MACDONALD The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
GEORGE MACDONALD Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.
GEORGE MACDONALD And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
GEORGE MACDONALD Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
GEORGE MACDONALD Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and b...
GEORGE MACDONALD When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
GEORGE MACDONALD Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
GEORGE MACDONALD To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
GEORGE MACDONALD Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist ...
GEORGE MACDONALD There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is...
GEORGE MACDONALD The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray; Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to tru...
GEORGE MACDONALD Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever...
GEORGE MACDONALD Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus c...
GEORGE MACDONALD The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi...
GEORGE MACDONALD God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, per...
GEORGE MACDONALD CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this on...
GEORGE MACDONALD Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho...
GEORGE MACDONALD No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Gather my broken ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before the...
GEORGE MACDONALD There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who...
GEORGE MACDONALD How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere e...
GEORGE MACDONALD From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From he...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of All Souls Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If I mista...
GEORGE MACDONALD I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritua...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Do those who say, "Lo he...
GEORGE MACDONALD Where every day is not the Lord's, the Sunday is his least of all. There may be a sickening unrealit...
GEORGE MACDONALD EPIPHANY Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...
GEORGE MACDONALD There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Fat...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 If God said, "I forgi...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The kingdom of heaven is not come e...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 It has been well said that no man ever sank und...
GEORGE MACDONALD Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Matthias the Apostle There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ...
GEORGE MACDONALD But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized lif...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 The principal part of faith is patienc...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 How often we look upo...
GEORGE MACDONALD There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin firs...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Continuing a short series on prayer: Hunger may drive the runaw...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemorati...
GEORGE MACDONALD You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 When I trouble myse...
GEORGE MACDONALD As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists i...
GEORGE MACDONALD God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That b...
GEORGE MACDONALD I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or k...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 To realize that yo...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 To the dim and bewilde...
GEORGE MACDONALD Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st,...
GEORGE MACDONALD The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares abou...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 I would not favour a fiction to keep a ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in ...
GEORGE MACDONALD They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown moun...
GEORGE MACDONALD The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 He who forgives not is not forgiv...
GEORGE MACDONALD That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 [God desires] not that He may say to them...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity: There ...
GEORGE MACDONALD EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope fr...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
GEORGE MACDONALD Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topic...
GEORGE MACDONALD Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The Son of God suffered unto the...
GEORGE MACDONALD The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His b...
GEORGE MACDONALD The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching....
GEORGE MACDONALD Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea o...
GEORGE MACDONALD No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him
GEORGE MACDONALD To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart o...
GEORGE MACDONALD …for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;
GEORGE MACDONALD This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can s...
GEORGE MACDONALD Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur.
GEORGE MACDONALD I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...
GEORGE MACDONALD However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...
GEORGE MACDONALD The main practical difficulty, with some at least of the Peace-makers, is how to carry themselves to...
GEORGE MACDONALD Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Ther...
GEORGE MACDONALD You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He ...
GEORGE MACDONALD No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
GEORGE MACDONALD There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.
GEORGE MACDONALD I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
GEORGE MACDONALD I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothi...
GEORGE MACDONALD What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind...
GEORGE MACDONALD Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children...
GEORGE MACDONALD I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...
GEORGE MACDONALD All that is not God is death.
GEORGE MACDONALD The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
GEORGE MACDONALD Obedience is the opener of eyes.
GEORGE MACDONALD She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...
GEORGE MACDONALD She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creati...
GEORGE MACDONALD punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
GEORGE MACDONALD Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
GEORGE MACDONALD Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks ...
GEORGE MACDONALD She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...
GEORGE MACDONALD there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your ma...
GEORGE MACDONALD We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else,...
GEORGE MACDONALD The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour goo...
GEORGE MACDONALD Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is ...
GEORGE MACDONALD The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
GEORGE MACDONALD What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty...
GEORGE MACDONALD As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...
GEORGE MACDONALD Past tears are present strength.
GEORGE MACDONALD My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mi...
GEORGE MACDONALD One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
GEORGE MACDONALD If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injur...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
GEORGE MACDONALD I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u...
GEORGE MACDONALD My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
GEORGE MACDONALD We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be t...
GEORGE MACDONALD And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but coul...
GEORGE MACDONALD Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
GEORGE MACDONALD Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five...
GEORGE MACDONALD Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible foun...
GEORGE MACDONALD To try to be brave is to be brave.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, w...
GEORGE MACDONALD The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
GEORGE MACDONALD In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’
GEORGE MACDONALD It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had b...
GEORGE MACDONALD ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
GEORGE MACDONALD Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
GEORGE MACDONALD You had better not open that door.
GEORGE MACDONALD Godfrey and Hesper made a glorious pair to look at--but would theirs be a happy union?--Happy, I dar...
GEORGE MACDONALD Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
GEORGE MACDONALD Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of t...
GEORGE MACDONALD We're looking into conserving landfill space. We're looking to generate energy without relying on fo...
GEORGE MACDONALD Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cul...
GEORGE MACDONALD Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
GEORGE MACDONALD God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
GEORGE MACDONALD The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
GEORGE MACDONALD It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
GEORGE MACDONALD Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.
GEORGE MACDONALD The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s bu...
GEORGE MACDONALD