Gus Mccrae Quotes & Sayings

The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it. — Frederic Bastiat

Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me. — Krista Ritchie

Yet she is happy -- is it happiness she feels? -- as she places her things in the cupboards and drawers. Her quills, stockings, shoes. The room is dotted by porcelain figures. Punctuated, she thinks. She picks one up, puts it down. The former wife's collection? Then opens a window to London bells and that green-silk scent of spring. And she sees now, here in this room, how badly she'd needed to leave. — Danielle Dutton

To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself. — Auberon Herbert

Don't just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished. — Israelmore Ayivor

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts. — James Frey

You used to be afraid to get so close to me," I told him, and he met my eyes. "That was a good instinct. — A.C. Gaughen

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you. — Oliver Sykes

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. — Malcolm X