C.W. McCall Quotes

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

Everything has been something before.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.