Max Mccall Quotes

What are the stars telling you?" I asked.
Max pushed up on his elbows and pretended to strain his ear toward the sky. "They say...They say...you're allowed to forgive yourself."
I rolled sideways...and he did the same.
"For what?" I asked.
"Living."
"I'm not very good at that," I admitted.
"Well, you kissed someone without flinching. Maybe you're getting better."
"Maybe it's just you."
He didn't argue. ~ Courtney C. Stevens

Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion. ~ Max Weber

The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws.
Experiment and Theory in Physics ~ Max Born

Every story has two sides. So far, we've only heard one. The stupid side." LIFE ~ Alexander McCall Smith

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. ~ Max Lerner

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. ~ Max Brooks

Max: [...] I just sort of wish that last night's dream balloon never came down to earth again:
Alice: Why? What happened on the balloon?
Max: Oh, you don't remember? Would it help if I reminded you?
Alice: It's not just helpful, it's important. Crucial to research as a matter of fa-.
Alice: Sometimes when you kiss me, I become completley weightless. ~ Lucy Keating

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity. ~ Jamie Cullum

Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. ~ Max DePree

Reed This:Sometimes people can be at two ends of a line and end up next to one another.Because intimacy and love-they're powerful enough to curve that line into a circle. ~ Max Monroe

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us. ~ Max Lucado

I watched him walk down the path from the house and then off on to the dusty road. People do that in India. When they reach a certain time of life, they sometimes just walk off and become holy men and never come back.That is what my father did ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding. ~ Max Brooks

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. ~ Max Lucado

In God's plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better. And - this is important - though you and I may wish a longer life for our loved ones, they don't. Ironically, the first to accept God's decision of death is the one who dies. While we are shaking heads in disbelief, they are lifting hands in worship. While we are mourning at a grave, they are marveling at heaven. While we are questioning God, they are praising God. ~ Max Lucado

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God. ~ Max Lucado

People who do that sort of thing may reap what they sow, but they also destroy the harvest of those who are around them. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock glowing from the bedside table, she asked herself whether one could force oneself to like somebody, or whether one could merely create conditions for affection to come into existence and hope that it did, spontaneously. Open then our hearts - these words came into her mind, dredged from somewhere in her memory, from some unknown context. If one opened one's heart, then friendship, and love, too, might alight and make their presence known. It was the act of opening that came first; that was the important thing, the first thing. But who was it who said, Open then our hearts? Where did that come from? ~ Alexander McCall Smith

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook. ~ Max Levchin

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. ~ Max Roach

And it was not surprising, perhaps, that he should feel it - this little boy who felt things so deeply; for we all feel that about our friends; we all feel that about those around whom we might put an arm. We all feel that about the darkness into which we go with others and about the very understandable fears that can be so easily dispelled, put to flight, by a simple gesture ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous. ~ Max Heindel

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them. ~ Max Lucado

It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins ~ Max Lucado

I had gotten a taste for death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization. ~ Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils. ~ Max Stirner

Max spat his coffee out all over himself. He tried to laugh and choke at the same time and so the only thing that came out was a sputtering bark that sounded like a phlegmatic seal with a pack and a half a day Lucky Strike habit -non filtered. ~ Zachary J. Kitchen

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak. ~ Max Irons

This is what we've been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win. ~ Max Keiser

The cake is not for eating; it is to teach the cook. ~ Max S. Marshall

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid. ~ Max Von Essen

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him. ~ Sol Luckman