Jeff MacNelly Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
-
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
-
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
-
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
-
Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
-
I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
-
People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
-
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
-
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
-
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
-
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
-
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
-
I do everything in a straightforward manner.
-
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
-
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
-
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
-
Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
-
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
-
I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
-
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
-
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
-
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.
-
I look at people, and I like to laugh at them.