Ba Jin Quotes
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
Quotes to Explore
-
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
-
It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
-
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
-
I really don't know life without wrestling.
-
Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
-
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-
I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
-
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
-
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
-
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
-
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
-
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
-
Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
-
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
-
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
-
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
-
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
-
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
-
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
-
When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.
-
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
