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

• There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Death
  • Culture

• 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 think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

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

  

  George Clooney
  • Film
  • Answers
  • Asks

• To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Speak
  • Paradox

• In Islam, Jesus is a prophet, and if you look at Mohammed and Jesus and Moses, it's not like Moses is better than Jesus and Jesus is better than Mohammed. They're all so highly respected and honored and followed, and they're all there for a reason.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Jesus
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• I'm a real rebel with a cause.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Rebel
  • Cause

• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  

  Demosthenes
  • People
  • Brother
  • Path

• At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • War
  • Wisdom

• 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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