Stephen King The Green Mile Book Quotes & Sayings

The man who's mad is at a disadvantage. The man who laughs can ride out anything. — W.T. Ballard

The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms

are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything. — Charles Olson

It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have the beginning of understanding, and once you have understanding, you lose fear. God didn't want man to be fearful. He wanted man to be brave. — John Kramer

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife. — Haile Gebrselassie

The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. — Gautama Buddha

Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. — Anonymous

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. — Charles R. Swindoll

But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter. — Robert Boyle

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing ... — Jimmy Page