Anthony McGowan quotes

Anthony McGowan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.”
-- Anthony McGowan

Source : Anthony McGowan (2009). “Jack Tumor”, p.141, Macmillan

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“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“Think it over, think it under.”
“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”
“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”
“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”
“I think things happened the way they did for a reason”
“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
“The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...”
“Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.”

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