C. L. R. James Quotes

He wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond.

They say you can never go home again." Bartholomew Quasar leaned back in his deluxe-model captain's chair as the star cruiser raced toward Earth. "But I tend to disagree.

And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

The Lord said unto me, 'I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs.

it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

It's worth all the pain, Now that I found myself back in your arms again.

Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.

So Encourage Each Other and Build Each Other Up-Positive Connections.

It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

Half of what we do depends on how smart we are, the other half depends upon how we do it

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

Fifth and finally, do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak. Until He does, stall for time and concentrate on the first four approaches.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do, " The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.

Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and the gift you give to one another daily….

And vampires never sparkle unless they just ate a stripper.

The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

Always wash you feet last.