Roumain Quotes & Sayings

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man. — Barry Gibb

If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results. — Carlos Wallace

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church. — Jacques Roumain

The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting. — Jacques Roumain

I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me. — Janet Morris

What will happen then?"
Ash stepped closer. His fingers came up to brush the hair from my face, sending an electric shock through me from my spine to my toes. His cool breath tickled my ear as he leaned in.
"I'll kill you. — Julie Kagawa

At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers. — Jacques Roumain

Experience is the cane of the blind. — Jacques Roumain

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore. — Anne Bishop

And I'm thinking a thought that is something like, "Be thankful for what's left of you. — Sam Pink

Kaelan, the work is His. That means the methods must be His. The timing must be His. And above all things, it must be bathed in prayer for His blessing. No step can be taken without Him. — Erika Mathews

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening. — Jacques Roumain

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. — Jacques Roumain

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. — Jacques Roumain

The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly. — Louis L'Amour

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head. — Jacques Roumain

It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die. — Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust. — Conn Iggulden

A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests. — Jacques Roumain

Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood. — Jacques Roumain

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth) — Richard Donner

No offense, but your mom is strange. She's a hit MILF, but totally off the wall."
I take my hand back."Eww! Colin, you just called my mom a MILF! I'm completely grossed out! — Simone Elkeles

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain