James P. Cannon Quotes
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
-
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
-
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
-
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
-
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
-
I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
-
After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
-
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
-
My life is so full of sacrifices.
-
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
-
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
-
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
-
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
-
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
-
I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
-
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
-
I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
-
The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
-
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
-
The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.
-
As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.
-
OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.
-
This movie 'On the Road' with Kristen Stewart - they were trying to make that movie for 30 years. She says she wants to do it, and they can finally make it. You have so much at your disposal if you're in a successful commercial film.
-
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
