Ernest Gaines Quotes

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

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• I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Great
  • Character
  • True

• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Faith
  • Stop
  • Moving

• Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?” “Once.” He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face, trace those beautiful lips with her own. “I married her.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Smile

• There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Failure

• Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Words
  • Our Lives

• Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Popular

• I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Senate

• I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Great
  • Why

• The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

  

  George Clooney
  • Film
  • Answers
  • Asks

• No human thing is of serious importance.

  

  Plato
  • Importance
  • Human Thing

• The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

  

  Plato
  • Childhood
  • Instruction
  • Compulsion

• Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

  

  Karla Faye Tucker
  • Waiting
  • Beens
  • Wardens

• Life is what you make it. I can’t change the bullshit in the world but I can make my own life interesting while I have it. This is my outlook nowadays. The misanthropy still exists in me but it is a more cold, soulless view than just pure irrational hate. I think I have grown to appreciate the things that matter to me than bother myself with other people, for better or worse.

  

  John Haughm Agalloch
  • Life
  • Matter
  • Misanthropy

• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Charity
  • Wit
  • Beast

• If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cry
  • Levels
  • Cynicism

• He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

  

  Ernest Gaines
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  • Beast