C. L. R. James Quotes

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong.

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.

My heart is yours. It beats for no one but you. Do you hear me? Only you.”~Jasper White Surrender to Me

If you can't laugh at yourself, don't worry others will…!

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

Is that an invitation?”“I suppose it is.”“Good.” Cade’s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. “And tell your friend in the striped shirt that he’s in my seat.

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

I don't get involved in anything that's stupid.

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

Like fashion, torture comes in a variety of styles.

It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.

I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

Some clothes provoke more feelings in me than people.

I stuck my finger in his belly buttonand squiggled it around.“Belly button rape!

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.

The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules.

This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

Judgments border on figurative cliffs that my pinky finger nudges to the floor of the infinite.

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….

If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

If you thing political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient speech and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

Your purpose is your profession.

Stop glorifying yourself, start glorifying God almighty.

They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.

The terrible poverty of pride is that there is nothing that can be taken in selfishness which will exceed what is received when nothing is expected and everything is offered.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail