Sebastian Faulks Quotes

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

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• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Important
  • Dream

• I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Women

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  

  E. B. White
  • Self
  • Strange
  • Two

• That's the most memorable one, but it's not the most fun to remember.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Memorable

• It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Energy
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Tease
  • Gladiator
  • Silently

• I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Guess
  • Wondering
  • Figured

• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  

  William Prynne
  • Christian
  • Dancing
  • Kissing

• Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Justice
  • Crime
  • Membership

• My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

  

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