Ron MacLean quotes

  • The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

  • If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

  • I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

  • Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

  • A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

  • This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

  • I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

  • For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South...

  • Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  • To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

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