Eugene McCarthy Quotes

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

We have ploughed the sea.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

It’s hard to be a front-runner in the Democratic Party. My party tends to destroy front-runners.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Sometimes it's hard. I'm not going to lie. It's tough. You feel like you're killing yourself, and you're giving it all you've got, and you're just not seeing it.

It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.

I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.