James Eads Quotes & Sayings

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction. — Charlie Crist

And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly."
Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time. — Helene Cixous

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway,

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anthropologists have invented the ingenious, convenient, fictional notion of the "true Negro," which allows them to consider, if need be, all the real Negroes on earth as fake Negroes, more or less approaching a kind of Platonic archetype, without ever attaining it. Thus, African history is full of "Negroids," Hamites, semi-Hamites, Nilo-Hamitics, Ethiopoids, Sabaeans, even Caucasoids! Yet, if one stuck strictly to scientific data and archeological facts, the prototype of the White race would be sought in vain throughout the earliest years of present-day humanity. — Cheikh Anta Diop

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard.
I regained my breath. Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss. — Becca Fitzpatrick

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore De Balzac

Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her heels as she rode around the Inward Sea and south to Ramas, and the way was long and hard. She knelt before her brother, King Thyrse, and begged him to lend this strength to save her son and kingdom from the lamia's stranglehold. But he bade her go hom to her northern keep, saying, "It more befits a woman to weep than to war." She rent her gown and showed under it a corset of steel, saying, "Brother, by our sire and our dame, remember the same blood runs in both our veins. — Sarah Micklem

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations. — Timothy Keller

One can expect an agreement between philosophers sooner than between clocks. — Seneca.

Sage Hendon returned the receiver to its cradle, ending the call with an important client, looked at the clock on her desk, and realized it was time to end her — Rain Danvers

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it. — Joan Jett

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised. — Therese Anne Fowler

It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed. — Laura Kasischke