Mackenzie Herbert Quotes

But that's life right? It's just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It's all in the draw and how you play it. ~ Mackenzie Herbert

Juliet and Romeo die at the end,' I said.
'Do they really, though?' Monroe asked. 'I didn't know that that matters, when they sure did live. It's as simple as this, their secret. When you love somebody, you live, and you live goddamn well. ~ Mackenzie Herbert

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison. ~ Mackenzie Herbert

Life was a little like that, I guess. We'd spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead. ~ Mackenzie Herbert

If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know. ~ Herbert Stein

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ~ Herbert Marcuse

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ~ David Herbert Donald

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer. ~ Marni Bates

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil. ~ Frank Herbert

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ~ Herbert Read

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. ~ Herbert Marcuse

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ~ Frank Herbert

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert ~ H. H. Asquith

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it. ~ Herbert Gold

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget. ~ Herbert Newton Casson

He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.] ~ George Herbert

Be what thou wouldst seeme to be. ~ George Herbert

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. ~ Frank Herbert

He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
[He that tells a secret is another's servant.] ~ George Herbert

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling. ~ Herbert Read

People, especially family, get upset if you are not attached to them but that's only because we confuse love and attachment all the time. ~ Vicki Mackenzie Cave In The Snow

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. ~ Herbert Marcuse

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ~ George Herbert

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes". ~ Herbert Butterfield

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. ~ Herbert Spencer

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She ~ Frank Herbert

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. ~ George Herbert

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. ~ Frank Herbert

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~ George Herbert

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power. ~ Frank Herbert

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. ~ Henry MacKenzie

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. ~ George Herbert

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. ~ Frank Herbert

Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~ George Herbert

Nothing is easier than being busy and nothing more difficult than being effective. ~ R. Alec MacKenzie

Empty Chambers make foolish maides. ~ George Herbert

She sleeps in the Waters of Life." Chani ~ Frank Herbert

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team. ~ Herbert Hainer

The reasons of the poore weigh not.
[The reasons of the poor weigh not.] ~ George Herbert

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. ~ William Lyon Mackenzie King

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. ~ David Herbert Donald

Anything and anyone can fail," he said, "but brave good friends help. ~ Frank Herbert

Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty. ~ Charles Dickens

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, ~ George Herbert

You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic. ~ Herbert A. Simon

Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes. ~ Frank Herbert