John D. MacDonald Quotes

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Never

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Cold
  • Doing

• When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Respect
  • Laws
  • Watch

• I do movies I would go to see.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movies
  • See
  • Go

• I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fun

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Independent

• That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

  

  Joel Salatin

• Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Question

• I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Job

• Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Good

• You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Up
  • Why

• I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • House

• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  

  Livy
  • Truth
  • Friendships

• I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Life
  • Friendships

• Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Friendships