Mary McCarthy Quotes

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Mary McCarthy

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• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Power
  • Person
  • Genius

• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

  Iman
  • Way
  • New
  • New York

• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Women

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Family
  • Dream

• Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Song
  • Words
  • Know

• The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.

  

  Ouida
  • Abuse

• For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • May
  • Education
  • Curiosity

• Gotta admit, it's kind of nice being surrounded by amazing beauty products 24/7.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Nice
  • Amazing

• When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Work
  • Die

• It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Death

• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • School
  • Design

• If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
  • Team

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • You
  • Style

• I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

  

  Martin Compston
  • German

• I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

  

  Mary McCarthy