Norm MacDonald Quotes
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everything that I design I would wear myself.
-
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
-
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
-
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
-
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
-
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
-
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life.
-
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
-
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.
-
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
-
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
-
Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.
-
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
-
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
-
The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
-
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
-
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
