C. L. R. James Quotes

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

He eased back and murmured, “You taste so damn sweet. Like maple syrup.”“And you taste like stolen bacon.

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While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

I could say the last of my doubts about taking the house vanished right there, but it wouldn’t be true. They did, however, close their suitcases and check the bus schedule.

I also know a Were-Pomeranian named Phoebe Fluffenstuff that will gut someone with her samurai sword as casually as you would slice a pie

If you're dealing with a pack of werewolves I'll jump in without hesitation, but I was not getting in the middle of a pack of crazed shoppers on Black Friday

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.

I like it subdued and tepid, with far to much milk

A laugh a day does you more good than an apple – read a humours book ...

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for cent

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters.

Women. You have to love them the way they are or they'll drive you insane.

Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.

With true beauty, there is no illusion.

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

For GOD is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.(Jesus, in Mark 11:24)

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?

The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.