Attallah James Quotes & Sayings

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting. — G.M. Young

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen. — Emil Julius Gumbel

If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security. — Fulton J. Sheen

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. — Bill Hybels

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it. — Norman Mailer

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: ... Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. — Frederic Bastiat

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman. — Romola Garai

More men die from overeating than undernourishment. — Nachman Of Breslov

Well it about these really naughty girls they made this huge girls gand they stole stuff from shopes and stuff — Jacqueline Wilson

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood. — Narendra Modi

When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance. — Peter Andre

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. — Monica Crowley