Eugene McCarthy Quotes
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Quotes to Explore
-
Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
-
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
-
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
-
I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
-
I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
-
I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
-
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
-
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
-
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
-
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
-
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
-
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
-
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
-
I'm cautious about a lot of words.
-
I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
-
We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
-
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
-
I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.
-
I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
-
We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.
-
We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
-
I don't need to impress children.
-
I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.
-
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
