Ernest Gaines Quotes

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

Ernest Gaines

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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

• To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Peace
  • Conscience
  • Regards

• I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.

  

  George Eliot
  • Trouble
  • Conscience
  • Taste

• I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Politics
  • Perfection

• And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • World
  • Arms
  • Felt

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

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Conscience
  • Except