Stupid Mccarver Quotes & Sayings

But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! — Erica Jong

Today we often feel we must "get away" from our daily routine in order to worship God, but that is only because we haven't learned to practice his presence all the time. Brother Lawrence found it easy to worship God through the common tasks of life; he didn't have to go away for special spiritual retreats. — Rick Warren

Whether it's death or life or a fence, you see things how you choose to see them. — Laura Lee Gulledge

What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a prodigy, take the place of all that? She shuddered with a feeling she couldn't have put a name to. It was the congenital human fear of isolation. — Tom Wolfe

It was all a question of face, she decided: you had to leave room for face to be saved. — Alexander McCall Smith

Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away: our life's a dream, ... — Isaac Watts

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] — George Orwell

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be. — Reid Hoffman

Once you have built something - something that takes all your passion and will - it becomes more precious to you than your own happiness. You don't realise that, while you are building it. That you are creating a martyrdom - something which, later, will make you suffer. — Sofia Samatar

Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"? — Charles Krauthammer

Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues. — Ma Jaya

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel."
-"I don't like you now."
-"We don't lie."
-"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to. — Melissa Marr

When you try to persistently abolish hatred,
at that very moment ... you lose focus on love. — Toba Beta

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll