Alexander Murdoch Mackay Quotes

Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

Alexander Murdoch Mackay

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• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Great
  • War
  • Hero

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • American
  • Innocent

• I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Hate
  • Alone

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • May
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Everything
  • Connected

• An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Entrepreneur

• There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Government
  • Talent
  • Losing

• My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter – with infinite subtlety – spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, – and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; – and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

  

  Andy Goldsworthy
  • Dying

• There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

  

  William Styron
  • Jobs
  • Firsts
  • Profession

• Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Hate
  • Stupid
  • Destructive

• The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Smart

• Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

  

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay
  • Service
  • Immortal
  • Saviour