Helen Clark MacInnes Quotes
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Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
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Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
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Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.
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And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
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The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
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The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
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Civilization is a perishable commodity.
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one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
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Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?
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Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.
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Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.
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Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
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