C. L. R. James Quotes

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

The day you stop loving your people, they're not your people anymore.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

I love the summer.... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water..... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.