Ed McCabe Quotes

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.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

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

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

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

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

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

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

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

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

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.

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

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

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

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

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

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

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

The absence of theistic belief...

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

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.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.

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

The absence of theistic bel

Gusty McCabe, tha's m' name and tellin' stories, tha's m' game, If they all ain't true I ain't t' blame, I'll tell 'em all just the same.

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.

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