Ernest Gaines Quotes

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Ernest Gaines

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• I ended the war a horse ahead.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War
  • Horse
  • Ahead

• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Speech
  • Roots
  • Grass

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Gay
  • Pleasure

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • School
  • Money
  • Drama

• For the rain it raineth every day.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Words

• I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Lost

• In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

  

  Alexandre de Betak
  • Light
  • Space
  • Perception

• So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Family
  • Together
  • Night

• As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

  

  David Friedman

• I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Great
  • War
  • History

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Middle
  • East

• Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Mean