James Earl Jones Quotes

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

James Earl Jones

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• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Write
  • Most

• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Attractive

• Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Faith

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Honest
  • Strange
  • Most

• I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Garden

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I believe children's blessings are very powerful.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Powerful

• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Car
  • Memory

• How can we help President Obama?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • President
  • How

• It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • House
  • Wife
  • Water

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Good

• She's my baby sister - I could talk about her till I'm blue in the face.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Baby
  • Sister

• An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

  

  Jane Smiley

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Law
  • Police

• I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People

• Perception is reality.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Reality
  • Perception

• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Exercise
  • Judgment
  • Occasionally

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

  

  David Christian
  • World
  • Education
  • Literature

• Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

  

  James Earl Jones