Mary McCarthy quote: "Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man."

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY

The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY

In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY

In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
MARY MCCARTHY

In violence, we forget who we are
MARY MCCARTHY

Congress
MARY MCCARTHY

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in o...
MARY MCCARTHY

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away...
MARY MCCARTHY

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when yo...
MARY MCCARTHY

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative...
MARY MCCARTHY

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has bec...
MARY MCCARTHY

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, ...
MARY MCCARTHY

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
MARY MCCARTHY

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive wha...
MARY MCCARTHY

We will need much better intelligence on this facility before we seriously consider any options.
MARY MCCARTHY

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outst...
MARY MCCARTHY

We are the hero of our own story.
MARY MCCARTHY

I kept pouring water over her head.
MARY MCCARTHY

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a fo...
MARY MCCARTHY

They're looking for a place to hide because they're so cold. It could be a pile of anything.
MARY MCCARTHY

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard
MARY MCCARTHY

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
MARY MCCARTHY

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away...
MARY MCCARTHY

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative...
MARY MCCARTHY

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited ab...
MARY MCCARTHY

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
MARY MCCARTHY

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of t...
MARY MCCARTHY

Climbing up in the attic.
MARY MCCARTHY

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
MARY MCCARTHY

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
MARY MCCARTHY

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism
MARY MCCARTHY

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex
MARY MCCARTHY

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he ...
MARY MCCARTHY

I just know that wherever he is, he knows she's doing well and knows what a powerful impact he had o...
MARY MCCARTHY

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our ...
MARY MCCARTHY

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious abo...
MARY MCCARTHY

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality
MARY MCCARTHY

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
(on Lillian Hellman)
MARY MCCARTHY

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
MARY MCCARTHY

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY

The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY

They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY

I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY

Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flaw...
ERIN MCCARTHY

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the ...
JENNA MCCARTHY

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
JOHN MCCARTHY

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tob...
JENNA MCCARTHY

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that...
JENNA MCCARTHY

Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't le...
JENNA MCCARTHY

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat ...
JENNY MCCARTHY

All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
MELISSA MCCARTHY

He's a pig and I don't allow livestock in the house.
ERIN MCCARTHY

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm ...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when someb...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

If you are serious about stopping people before things take off, then necessarily your evidence is g...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

If you think about it, it's obvious why that's so. They have at their disposal the information which...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

The charging ammunition we had was awful.
ANDREW MCCARTHY

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
ANDREW MCCARTHY

I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just dying he...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,
ANDREW MCCARTHY

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when someb...
ANDREW MCCARTHY

There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of ma...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardina...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once a...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and...
JENNY MCCARTHY

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to g...
JENNY MCCARTHY

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
JENNY MCCARTHY

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
JOHN MCCARTHY

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Thei...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Stri...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautifu...
JOHN MCCARTHY

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint patter...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are...
JENNY MCCARTHY

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of pa...
JENNY MCCARTHY

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside locke...
JENNY MCCARTHY

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package tha...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
MELISSA MCCARTHY

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Rolling Stones were aware of our plan which was to simply lower the volume on his microphone at ...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

CBS, which will carry both in 2007, requested the change for programming purposes.
BRIAN MCCARTHY

We make every best effort to police the activity and try to stop it before we have to take legal act...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

A league meeting at this juncture would have been premature.
BRIAN MCCARTHY

Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.
BRIAN MCCARTHY

This provides us an opportunity to extend our reach and bring added value to the fans. After we nail...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

As we get better from a technology standpoint, many organizations seem to believe that technology so...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

We want to be associated with partners that portray the NFL in the best light.
BRIAN MCCARTHY

We want to be associated with partners that portray the NFL in the best light and (with games) based...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

We agreed upon it earlier this week. They were fine with it. If we had missed it, then ABC had five ...
BRIAN MCCARTHY

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If I'm still here in this locker room, it's fine with me. I'll wash the towels, I don't care. I'm at...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

I knew coming up here my role was that they put me where they need to. If that's in the bullpen or s...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

It's kind of chaos and, for me, confusion because I've never been a part of one of these in the big ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

It's probably the most nervous I've ever been on a baseball field in God knows how long.
BRANDON MCCARTHY

It was a little tougher getting there because I didn't feel as sharp command wise. But I felt that I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

I go with his gut feeling. In most situations, it works out.
BRANDON MCCARTHY

Again, a lot depends on what happens this year, who does what. But that's a good situation for me. I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

I know him a little bit, and he seemed like a calm, level-headed kid. I was kind of surprised when I...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

We swept a few teams this year ? it just kind of sucks that it was our turn to get swept at the end ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

Basically I have to throw wherever they put me, and if I'm successful, then hopefully it makes a goo...
BRANDON MCCARTHY

I wanted something I could use in the civilian world, that would benefit me in the Air Force, and th...
BOB MCCARTHY

You'd have to. If he did come back in two weeks we know he'd be fit. The way football is now we're g...
BOB MCCARTHY

It's good for the state to take it on. This is going to firm up what we are doing.
BOB MCCARTHY

What happened tonight, that couldn't happen any other way, is that face-to-face communication occurr...
BOB MCCARTHY

Trent is playing great football. The big plus is that he's match hardened and can play halfback, whi...
BOB MCCARTHY

Lockyer is the incumbent five-eighth and captain and he hasn't done anything wrong in my eyes to los...
BOB MCCARTHY

I didn't think it was necessary,
BOB MCCARTHY

I don't know about that.
BOB MCCARTHY

We need to ratchet up our assistance. The next six weeks are going to be decisive. Last year, half a...
BOB MCCARTHY

It is a borderline situation, and more and more children are slipping into this category. Aid worker...
BOB MCCARTHY

I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. I...
JOHN MCCARTHY

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those ti...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told fr...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only lan...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a litt...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I ...
GINA MCCARTHY

What we're trying to do is get people ... to become more active in working with their legislators ba...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

Hey Den! My God, Dennis. Look at me now. Who would've ever thought?
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

This failed as far as I'm concerned,
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

I believe that the people of the United States as a whole care about this issue very much, and it's ...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

With the high demand for long term care and in the wake of the worst natural disaster in history, cu...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportuniti...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast should create economic opportunities for its residents, not an oppo...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution...
ERIN MCCARTHY

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY

And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard w...
JACK MCCARTHY

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I think it's a sign of desperation for them.
KEARY MCCARTHY

I'm pissed off. He's a quality player who everyone expects to win the World Cup for England.
MICK MCCARTHY

The SCLC draft has a whole mile of good intentions.
JOHN MCCARTHY

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
MELISSA MCCARTHY

The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnece...
GINA MCCARTHY

Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energ...
GINA MCCARTHY

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. An...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and...
JOHN MCCARTHY

At the minute, it is very, very tough,
MICK MCCARTHY

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.

Mary McCarthy

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