C. L. R. James Quotes
With a little discipline and regular self-checks you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
Oh my luve's like a red red rose That's newly sprung in June Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
Among the changing months May stands confest The sweetest and in fairest colors dressed.
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining a breeze was blowing the birds were singing and the lawnmower was broken.
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity they seem more afraid of life than of death.
The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
Man's rise or fall success or failure happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.
"Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once." It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
