James Gilligan Quotes

#1. Let me go," I said, my gaze dropping to his hand, holding the hem of my jacket. He closed his eyes briefly.
"I don't know how," he whispered.

Claire Contreras

#2. All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

James Gilligan

#3. Love is the great redeemer, the Franciscan had said. Through love, all things are possible. Gideon bit back the triumphant laughter rising in his chest. He'd beaten the monster. Just once, but if he'd restrained it once, he could do it again.
Through love, all things are possible.

Shelby Reed

#4. If you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself.

Joseph Campbell

#5. Do they listen?"
He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.

Abraham Verghese

#6. Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.

Jason Bateman

#7. The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

Jay Leno

#8. If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

Dan Glickman

#9. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow

Terry Pratchett

#10. Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Mignon McLaughlin

#11. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#12. The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

James Gilligan

#13. I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Ibn Warraq

#14. The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

David Thewlis

#15. Instead of asking life "why me?" I say "try me

Shantaye Brown

#16. Flower is breathed in its height. (Fleur se respire - Dans sa hauteur.)

Charles De Leusse

#17. The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

James Gilligan