FastSaying

And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.


James A. Michener

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific...
NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love.
SARVESH JAIN At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a canc...
MARK WAID You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov...
C. JOYBELL C. And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li...
WASHINGTON IRVING She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
DAVID STEINDL-RAST Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one a...
C. JOYBELL C. the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. Th...
C. JOYBELL C. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance....
GENA SHOWALTER Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
NIA VARDALOS Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?”
“Probably,” Frank said.
“She�...
RICK RIORDAN What exactly did you find in Atlanta?”
Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s...
RICK RIORDAN Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a ...
RICK RIORDAN

More James A. Michener

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
JAMES A. MICHENER Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb...
JAMES A. MICHENER «И из нее сделали пример, на который мужчины будут ссыл...
JAMES A. MICHENER Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
JAMES A. MICHENER The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
JAMES A. MICHENER An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
JAMES A. MICHENER I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
JAMES A. MICHENER I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
JAMES A. MICHENER When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives ...
JAMES A. MICHENER Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...
JAMES A. MICHENER I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great h...
JAMES A. MICHENER I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
JAMES A. MICHENER I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...
JAMES A. MICHENER I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookou...
JAMES A. MICHENER I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Ham...
JAMES A. MICHENER The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
JAMES A. MICHENER I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. W...
JAMES A. MICHENER The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limit...
JAMES A. MICHENER A Roman came to Rabbi Gimzo the Water Carrier, and asked, "What is this study of the law that you Je...
JAMES A. MICHENER Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern par...
JAMES A. MICHENER Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you
JAMES A. MICHENER If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.
JAMES A. MICHENER We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
JAMES A. MICHENER It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, an...
JAMES A. MICHENER There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
JAMES A. MICHENER Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer...
JAMES A. MICHENER I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and poppe...
JAMES A. MICHENER Schools look to us to find the balance between aesthetics and cost. Public schools typically have ti...
DEB MICHENER If you have to have a ramp, try to respect the architecture.
DEB MICHENER The goal is transparent accessibility. It's not always necessary to have big ramps.
DEB MICHENER Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reali...
TARA MICHENER The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain ...
JAMES A. FORBES The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should ...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
A. JAMES CLARK We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep...
A. JAMES CLARK I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and sho...
A. JAMES CLARK My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of...
A. JAMES CLARK My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. JAMES CLARK It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
A. JAMES CLARK The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work...
A. JAMES CLARK When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
A. JAMES CLARK I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. JAMES CLARK There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bomb...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
JAMES A. WORSHAM All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e...
JAMES A. MURPHY Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just...
JAMES A. MURPHY The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
JAMES A. FROUDE Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES A. FROUDE Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES A. FROUDE Human improvement is from within outward.
JAMES A. FROUDE The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
JAMES A. FROUDE Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES A. FROUDE The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw...
JAMES A. FROUDE In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES A. FROUDE The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES A. FROUDE We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
JAMES A. FROUDE Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...
JAMES A. FROUDE A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES A. FROUDE History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter...
JAMES A. FORUDE A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yours...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice c...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their So...
JAMES A. LEACH Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than tha...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES A. BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusias...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immu...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started maki...
JAMES A. MOORE It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enj...
JAMES A. MURPHY When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES A. FROUDE Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and ...
JAMES A. FORBES I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD By assuming control of Platinum before the expiration of the required waiting period while the Justi...
CHARLES A. JAMES This conduct prematurely reduced competition between the companies. Merging parties must strictly ad...
CHARLES A. JAMES The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li...
JAMES A. MOORE Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are the...
JAMES A. MURPHY I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A man needs selfacceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs selfcriticism or others can't li...
JAMES A. PIKE These divestitures ensure that consumers of milk, an American staple, continue to get the benefits o...
CHARLES A. JAMES Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce....
JAMES A. GARFIELD He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
JAMES A. GARFIELD Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
JAMES A. GARFIELD Suicide is not a remedy.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas control the world.
JAMES A. GARFIELD This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substan...
CHARLES A. JAMES Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow l...
JAMES A. MURPHY For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophic...
JAMES A. SHAPIRO I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choos...
JAMES A. OWEN Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at...
JAMES A. MURPHY Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It hel...
JAMES A. MURPHY Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the ...
JAMES A. MURPHY THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RELIVING DISSOCIATED EXPERIENCES

The reexperiencing of previ...
JAMES A. CHU Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all g...
JAMES A. MURPHY This merger would create a monopoly in those areas where cable television is not available, thereby ...
CHARLES A. JAMES If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your lif...
JAMES A. MURPHY Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be pr...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what...
JAMES A. KITCHENS The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no rem...
JAMES A. GARFIELD It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well....
JAMES A. OWEN Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy a...
JAMES A. MURPHY It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD The difficulties in diagnosing DID result primarily from lack of education among clinicians about di...
JAMES A. CHU