Ernest Gaines Quotes

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Person
  • Rule
  • Conscience

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Conscience
  • Self-Esteem

• I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Teen
  • Normal
  • Size

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reason

• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Quiet
  • Fools
  • Except

• All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Star
  • Positive

• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Memory

• A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • May
  • Friend
  • Conscience

• Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Dad
  • Except

• It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Playing

• I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Except

• The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Taken
  • Dance
  • Waiting

• I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Political

• I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Laugh
  • Conscience
  • Acts

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Able

• Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Faith
  • Development
  • Africa

• I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Genius
  • Believer

• I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Conscience
  • Except