Norm MacDonald Quotes

A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

Norm MacDonald

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Why
  • Human
  • Expression

• I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Religious

• There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

  

  Benjamin Hoff
  • Time
  • Clever

• What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Support

• Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Good
  • American
  • Future

• I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Images

• I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

  

  Emeli Sande
  • People
  • Romantic

• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Good
  • Adversity

• It's no fun being lonely.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Fun
  • Lonely

• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Power
  • Relationship

• Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.

  

  Bob Diamond
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Desire
  • Door

• Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

  

  Matthew Prior
  • Night

• The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

• A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Desire
  • Disappointment
  • Cure