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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.
— Cormac McCarthy
You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.
— Cormac McCarthy
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
— Cormac McCarthy
He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
— Cormac McCarthy
Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
— Cormac McCarthy
I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.
— Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.
— Cormac McCarthy
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
— Cormac McCarthy
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.
— Cormac McCarthy
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
— DH Lawrence
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
— Dale Carnegie