C. L. R. James Quotes

The measure of a man consists less in his present perfection than in his willingness to be perfected. A man will be remembered most, not for his accomplishments, but for his character.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

Being less discriminative shouldn't mean protecting nasty people, then discriminating against the innocent

The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

Life every day is a room full of doors.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.

Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Highs must be followed by lows.

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

Highs must be followed by lows

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

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

Never let the law interfere with justice.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.

The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by “Participation Trophy” winning wimps!

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

I'd like to bite that lip.

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt.

Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.

Every morning and every night, I pause for just a minute and express my gratitude for all that I have in my life and all that I have experienced.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy....

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.

Isn't it lucky?

We're all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?