C. L. R. James Quotes

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.

The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is 'Psych'.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

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.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.

There is no armor against fate.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.