Norm MacDonald Quotes
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
Quotes to Explore
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.
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Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
