Jacques Roumain Quotes

#1. As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Jacques Roumain

#2. I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

Tim Cope

#3. In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

Dan Barker

#4. The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

Mason Cooley

#5. Experience is the cane of the blind.

Jacques Roumain

#6. The veterinarian looked at Buttons for a few seconds, and then he looked up at Karen. He cleared his throat. He said, Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but - Buttons - Buttons isn't a dog.

Laura Kasischke

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

Jacques Roumain

#8. We only refer to sapient creatures as civilized when their society is willingly self-correcting. That means that any problem or imbalance that arises is fixed, and I mean really fixed - not ignored, not hidden, and not passed off to a future generation.

J.Z. Colby

#9. At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

Mariam Naficy

#10. And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

Jacques Roumain

#11. We ought to live and not to worry about life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. United States and abroad reject and condemn violent jihad. But it doesn't follow

Glenn Beck

#13. Y'cannae see can ye? Y'know who christened you lot the 'underclass'? The same sinister bastards that changed Windscale to Sellafield...they're nuthin' but a lot of jumped-up fascist bastards!

Ian Pattison

#14. It was a measure of how much money people were making in the bond market that the magazine Institutional Investor was about to create a hot list of people who worked in it, called The 20 Rising Stars of Fixed Income. It was a measure of how much money people

Michael Lewis

#15. Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

Marianne Williamson

#16. Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Honore De Balzac

#17. 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

#18. I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.

Anton Du Beke

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

Jacques Roumain