Mccabe Quotes

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu. ~ Joseph McCabe

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more. ~ Amanda McCabe

Take off your undead blinders and open your dismembered arms to progress. Fast zombies are scarier, plain and simple! ~ Greg McCabe

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend. ~ Richard McCabe

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art. ~ Charles McCabe

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone.

{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe} ~ E. Haldeman-Julius

Let us, at least, dig and seek till we have discovered our own opinions. The dogmas we really hold are far more fantastic, and, perhaps, far more beautiful than we think. In the course of these essays I fear that I have spoken from time to time of rationalists and rationalism, and that in a disparaging sense. Being full of that kindliness which should come at the end of everything, even of a book, I apologize to the rationalists even for calling them rationalists. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them. Some, with a sumptuous literary turn, believe in the existence of the lady clothed with the sun. Some, with a more rustic, elvish instinct, like Mr. McCabe, believe merely in the impossible sun itself. Some hold the undemonstrable dogma of the existence of God; some the equally undemonstrable dogma of the existence of the man next door. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Girls, don't ever settle for a man who won't labor for love. ~ Erin Lindsay McCabe

I will always hear Tyson Monroe McCabe. Whether it's a whisper, a scream, no matter what Ty says, I will always hear him. ~ C.M. Stunich

It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man. ~ G.K. Chesterton

It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around. ~ Richard McCabe

Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days! ~ Patrick McCabe

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ... ~ Joseph McCabe

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition. ~ Ed McCabe

I'm getting tired of Nancy Drew," I told my mother. "The books are all the same." Once I'd become attuned to the pattern of each plot, it became glaringly obvious how alike they were.

Mom nodded sagely. "You've discovered the difference between good literature and trash. ~ Nancy McCabe

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. ~ Richard McCabe

That's the problem with zoo dentists," he said. "Always looking a gift horse in the mouth. ~ Monica McCabe

I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours. ~ Maya Banks

" ... The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC ... a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN." ~ Ed McCabe

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity. ~ Paul McCabe

Tyson McCabe, my bad boy, my tortured soul, my little piece of dark with bits of light that glimmer like stars. ~ C.M. Stunich

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities. ~ Jewell Jackson McCabe

It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment's notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life. ~ Richard McCabe

The absence of theistic belief...

{Defining the word 'atheism'} ~ Joseph McCabe

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving. ~ Jewell Jackson McCabe

His eyes begged: 'Could you love me?' Well, I could – but I had a lot of things on hand and it really would have to wait. ~ Patrick McCabe

The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry ~ Dermot McCabe

People who think they have no belief quite often say they want to pray but they do not know who or what they could be praying to. Aquinas would not say to such people, 'Ah, but you see, if you became a believer, a Christian, we would change all that. You would come to understand to whom you are praying.' Not at all. He would say to such people, 'If you became a Christian you would stop being surprised or ashamed of your condition. You would be happy with it. For faith would assure you that you could not know what God is until he reveals himself to us openly.' ~ Herbert McCabe

In the first Test of the 1938 Ashes series, Eddie Paynter and Stan McCabe became the first players on opposing sides to score double-centuries in the same match. Bill Brown and Wally Hammond repeated the feat in the very next Test at Lord's. How quickly the once-unprecedented accumulates its precedents. ~ Rodney Ulyate

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience. ~ Herbert McCabe

Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. [...] I imagine it is a symptom of the fear, the dread, of being gone, of the refusal to accept that you no longer control, or even participate in, anything that happens on earth. I spoke about this with funeral director Kevin McCabe, who believes that decisions concerning the disposition of a body should be mad by the survivors, not the dead. "It's non of their business what happens to them whey the die," he said to me. While I wouldn't go that far, I do understand what he was getting at: that the survivors shouldn't have to do something they're uncomfortable with or ethically opposed to. Mourning and moving on are hard enough. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased's ashes into inner space, that's fine. But if it is burdensome or troubling for any reason, then perhaps they shouldn't have to. ~ Mary Roach

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him. ~ Herbert McCabe

I think it may truly said that if you are tired of San Francisco, you are tired of life. ~ Charles McCabe

The purpose of the FBI is not to support one side. The purpose of the FBI is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. ~ Andrew G. McCabe

Who's the little girl?" Don't speak, Barrons had told me on the way there, no matter what anyone says. I don't care how pissed off you might get. Swallow it. His derisive "little girl" ringing in my ears, I bit down hard and didn't say a word. "Just the latest piece of ass, McCabe." I no longer had to bite down. I was speechless. ~ Karen Marie Moning

No pope ever condemned slavery. ~ Joseph McCabe

Maybe it was this place, this strange, ramshackle, warm-hearted place, that had given his wife that air of laughing, welcoming life. Because here she bloomed. With him she had faded and he had faded with her. Yet here she was, his Jane again.
His hope. And he had never, ever wanted to hope again. ~ Amanda McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. ~ Charles McCabe

We're one in the same, Ty McCabe and I, and he'll always, always get me. Even if nobody else does. ~ C.M. Stunich

We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. - HERBERT MCCABE, OP ~ Terry Eagleton

Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ~ Joseph McCabe

Oh yes, it's definitely been jumped on, that egg. ~ Tony McCabe

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around. ~ Jewell Jackson McCabe

You do not see any improvements you would make?"
Miss Harding's smile turned mischievous. "Not at present. But I should have to see the inside. That is where ladies really excel, you know, in curtains and cushions and such."
"Indeed," David murmured, remembering how Maude had filled the London house with bolts and piles of fabrics and wallpapers and pillows the instant they arrived. Everything in the very latest style.
And then he thought of Emma's cosy sitting room, all books and family portraits and dog beds. ~ Amanda McCabe

She could flunk of no reason at all ~ Amanda McCabe

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa. ~ Richard McCabe

You will have your duty in the bedchamber. Now, Emily, I warn you it will not be pleasant. It will hurt, and be rather messy. You must lie back and do as your husband tells you, and it will soon be over."

"Mama!" Emily groaned. "I don‟t really need to know - "

"No, Emily, let me finish. There are ways to make it easier. I used to close my eyes and plan a party. ~ Amanda McCabe

I'm afraid the truth is you're putting yourself in for plenty of disappointment if you expect people to hang around for very long in this life! ~ Patrick McCabe

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century. ~ Joseph McCabe

There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior. ~ Paul McCabe

Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist. ~ Joseph McCabe

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. ~ Joseph McCabe

I asked if you was pleased.'
'Course I'm pleased! You think I'd be mad if I wasn't pleased?'
'You don't make a lick of sense,' he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me. ~ Erin Lindsay McCabe

You'll have to learn to forgive," he said. "For if you don't, you know what will happen?"
"What, Doctor?" I croaked, for my outburst had exhausted me.
"It will destroy you," he said as he handed me the tea.
A tear came into my eye when he said it for I knew it was true and I would have loved to be able to do it (not because of its destroying me but because it was right, and deep down I knew that) but I couldn't and the more I thought of it the more the blood came coursing to my head so that whenever I'd write I'd find myself clutching the pencil so tight I broke the lead how many times I don't know, hundreds. ~ Patrick McCabe

Oh God." Chloe closed her eyes, and when they reopened, he saw an excitement that suddenly made him nervous. "We're going all James Bond, aren't we? I'm so on board with the idea. ~ Monica McCabe

Hello there dandelions, fuck off! Chop go the heads with a cut of the stick excuse me just what do you think you're doing clip clip chop chop aaargh! what the fuck is going on where's our heads? Hee-yup!, I said and away again. ~ Patrick McCabe

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything. ~ Charles McCabe

I wanted to stop talking about the whole thing. I wanted to talk about the hide and the old days and hacking at the ice and whose turn it was to toss the marble and all that, that was what I wanted to talk about. They were the best days, you could see through them days, as clear as polished glass. But Joe didn't want to. ~ Patrick McCabe

Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have AIDS, cancer, and almost any other disease you can think of, due to the continual and correct application of oxygen therapies. ~ Ed McCabe

Surely he had never fainted in his life! He glowed with robust good health and vibrant energy, as if he could conquer all the world and still have strength for a dance and to rescue a maiden or two. ~ Amanda McCabe

I kiss him like the fairytale prince that every girl wants. His horse might be black instead of white and he isn't blonde haired and blue eyed, but damn, he has butterflies inked into his skin and birds on his back, an eyebrow and a lip ring and words of wisdom peppered with the foulest fucking language known to man. I would take Ty McCabe over a knight in shining armor any day. ~ C.M. Stunich

He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often. ~ Amanda McCabe

All of a sudden I looked at him with his rosy cheeks and the two silver snots at his nose and what did I want to do I wanted to kiss him. Not the way Tiddly did it any of that but just because all of a sudden everything seemed so good. I said to myself: Just being here is so good I could stand here for ever. ~ Patrick McCabe

Revolution is not intelligible and certainly not reasonable within the thought forms and language of this current world; revolution requires faith. When he speaks of the new world, the world to come, the revolutionary cannot describe it as a change of conditions within this world which, upon calculation, will be found to be preferable, he can only speak in parables, hoping that he will awaken his listener to share his vision and faith. ~ Herbert McCabe

I don`t know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain. ~ Patrick McCabe

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. ~ Joseph McCabe

Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins. ~ Ed McCabe

Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what He'd been drinking the day he went and made a twilight zone of a disaster like me. ~ Patrick McCabe

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons. ~ Richard McCabe

All these boys, all these men, they are something to someone. There are people back home, waiting on them and the waiting ain't never going to end now. For the rest of my life I am waiting too. ~ Erin Lindsay McCabe

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do. ~ Richard McCabe

Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use. ~ Amanda McCabe

He asked McCabe to outlaw him and his religion, too, in order to give the religious life of the people more zest, more tang. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You can't live an extraordinary life with an ordinary mindset. ~ Hermy L McCabe

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes. ~ Paul McCabe

Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any ~ Rev. Joseph A. Heim