William McFee Quotes

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

I don't mind what happens.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.