George MacDonald Quotes

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

George MacDonald

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• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Day
  • Become

• I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • World
  • Support
  • Myself

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Respect
  • Tennis
  • Through

• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
  • Always
  • Struggle

• I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Favourite

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Really

• For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Time
  • Team
  • Weird

• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Read
  • Sight
  • Seen

• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Death
  • Machinery
  • Shall

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Help
  • Poetry

• In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Community

• Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Children
  • Truth

• I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

  

  Katherine Heigl

• My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

  

  Denis Leary

• There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
  • Culture
  • Discipline
  • Demand

• A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

  

  George MacDonald