Chester Himes Quotes
It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.Chester Himes
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
Ian Thorpe -
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
Nasim Pedrad -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx -
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
Najib Mikati -
It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
Harry A. Blackmun -
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
Ralph Marston -
Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer -
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
J. G. Ballard -
I'm drawn to bad romances.
Lady Gaga -
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B. F. Skinner -
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
Sally Ride -
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett -
Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
Zelig Pliskin
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You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
Rick Danko -
There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
Alicia Keys -
I did find Calypso hotdog - but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. … I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.
John Muir -
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
Chester Himes