Norm MacDonald Quotes
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Quotes to Explore
-
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
-
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
-
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
-
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
-
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
-
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
-
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
-
There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
-
We came up short on offense and that's on me.
-
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice
-
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
-
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, " ' In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' "
-
If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
-
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
-
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
-
The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
-
For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
-
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
