J. M. Roberts Quotes

Sometimes things fall apart so other things can fall into place.

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• I made all my generals out of mud.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Mud
  • Generals

• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Son

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Story
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Anger

• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kids
  • Past
  • Know

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• It's brutal out on the football field.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Field
  • Brutal

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Success
  • Food

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Republicans
  • Democrats
  • Rome

• I was always taken in and out of school.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Taken
  • Always

• When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • People
  • Fall
  • Universe

• Sometimes things fall apart so other things can fall into place.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Fall
  • Place
  • Apart