Mary McCarthy Quotes

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Man
  • Television
  • Only

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • You
  • Know
  • Politics

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Sun
  • Red
  • Lucky

• I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • My Life

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Bad
  • Hair
  • Boy

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Change
  • Always
  • Human

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• We would take millions of undocumented illegal if they would serve in the military.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Military
  • Serve
  • Illegal

• Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Military
  • Drug
  • Economy

• If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Think

• In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Opportunity
  • Lost
  • Health

• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • Military