Maude Meagher quotes

“Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.”
-- Maude Meagher

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“There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.”
-- Maude Meagher

Source : Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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“creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.”
-- Maude Meagher

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“dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.”
-- Maude Meagher

Source : Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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“Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.”
-- Maude Meagher

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“happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.”
-- Maude Meagher

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“Anyone one loves is a potential enemy ...”
-- Maude Meagher

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“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”

“Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.”

“To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.”

“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”

“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”

“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”

“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."”

“I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.”

“I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.”