Ernest Gaines Quotes

"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

Ernest Gaines

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Time
  • Same
  • Blow

• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Water
  • Sea

• I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Help
  • Strong

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Words
  • Give
  • Interview

• The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

  

  Gary Gygax

• If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • High

• We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

  

  James Altucher
  • Future

• The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

  

  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  • Up
  • Time

• When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

  

  Miguel
  • Song
  • Perspective

• I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Words

• I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Great
  • Today
  • Past

• People love stories. They need stories.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • People

• Covenant belonging gives us place, narrative, capacity to become. It produces faith unto life and salvation.

  

  Gerrit W. Gong
  • Faith
  • Salvation
  • Covenant

• "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Feelings
  • Feels
  • Dying