Helen Clark MacInnes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Positive #Interesting #Not Interested
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Men #Trying #World
The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Pain #Feelings #Mind
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.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Greek #Mixtures #May
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Friendship #Depth #Length
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Self #Remember #Forget
Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Expectations #Pessimism #Worst
And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Barbarians #Destruction #Worst
Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#People #Curiosity #Attractive
Civilization is a perishable commodity.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Civilization #Commodity
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.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Discovery #Adults #World
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes

#Mean #Men #Use

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