Cormac McCarthy Quotes
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
Cormac McCarthy
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
Warren Farrell
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
Patrick Wilson
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
Ian Williams
Battles
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
Halsey
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
Taraji P. Henson
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Garry Marshall
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
Hamid Karzai
'No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as 'pets,' for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
Jane Goodall
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
Alan Stern
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
William Shakespeare
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
Cormac McCarthy