"To be disesteemed by people you don't have……" — Mary McCarthy
"To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate."
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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site.
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In violence, we forget who we are
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or…
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a…
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More Fate Quotes
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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