C. L. R. James Quotes

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.

Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win, " and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

Often what we struggle with becomes the foundation of our greatest success.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

The only time someone fails in life is when they fail to try at all

No if's, but's or maybe's. It's all or nothing. You're either going to soar to new heights or crash and burn. Why live by any other philosophy.

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

That’s the beauty of the universe. There’s always a new mystery.

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

I can Be what I WILL to Be. Find A Way~ Make it Happen!

After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth!

Please, Tommy. Please

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.

He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.”“I prefer canine-American, ” said Total.

Didn't know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs

Sorry. Sometimes my mouth engages before making contact with my brain.

Wakey wakey eggs and bacey!

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.

After you've taken so much trouble to set up recorder, you ask me now?

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

People in third world countries aren't living in poverty, they're living pretty much as nature intended us to live it and putting us all to shame

Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.

432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this.

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

We can't play God.We can't do this to kids.You're evil, I'm evil.Everyone will die.No matter what.Let nature win.

I only have two fingers left.I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.That is the truth.We are evil.They are kids.We are evil.