Quotes About Weldon

#1. Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#2. You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece. - Author: Fay Weldon

#3. To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose. - Author: Fay Weldon

#4. How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? - Author: Fay Weldon

#5. [R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#6. Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben? - Author: Fay Weldon

#7. Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. - Author: Fay Weldon

#8. The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything. - Author: Fay Weldon

#9. Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#10. New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#11. Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound. - Author: Fay Weldon

#12. Detective Comic #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pissed. - Author: Glen Weldon

#13. Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism ... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane. - Author: Curt Weldon

#14. People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. - Author: Fay Weldon

#15. All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children. - Author: Fay Weldon

#16. As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. - Author: Fay Weldon

#17. One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits. - Author: Fay Weldon

#18. My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#19. How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? - Author: Curt Weldon

#20. As I grew up I developed some literary pretensions myself, and studied and wrote meticulous poetry informed by poets as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Rimbaud, and Judy Grahn. - Author: Jo Weldon

#21. It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#22. Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. - Author: Fay Weldon

#23. It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. - Author: Curt Weldon

#24. Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#25. Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#26. Cultivating strong family bonds is a natural side effect of homeschooling as we pursue our interests, share chores and simply enjoy one another's company. - Author: Laura Grace Weldon

#27. The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right. - Author: Fay Weldon

#28. To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor's guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we've lost, we can kill what we have. - Author: Glen Weldon

#29. Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. - Author: Curt Weldon

#30. Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. - Author: Curt Weldon

#31. Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#32. Listen!--- Listen!
All you sons of Pharaoh.
Who do you think can hold God's people
when the Lord God himself has said,
Let my people go? - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#33. I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you. - Author: Fay Weldon

#34. The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. - Author: Felix De Weldon

#35. We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination. - Author: Fay Weldon

#36. Anyone who remembered the grim, gun-toting, thug-murdering Batman of 1939 could see that he'd become a fundamentally different guy: a grinning, lantern-jawed, wisecracking adventure hero who'd left that emo "creature of the night" shtick far behind. - Author: Glen Weldon

#37. Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living. - Author: Fay Weldon

#38. Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time. - Author: Fay Weldon

#39. Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#40. Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings. - Author: Curt Weldon

#41. People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said. - Author: Fay Weldon

#42. It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#43. Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it. - Author: Fay Weldon

#44. You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#45. Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'? - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#46. I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead. - Author: Fay Weldon

#47. The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself ... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them. - Author: Fay Weldon

#48. Lift every voice and sing. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#49. Well - er - Batwoman - I thought we were going to die - and I wanted to make your last moments happy ones!" he says. Jerk. - Author: Glen Weldon

#50. Men are irrelevant. - Author: Fay Weldon

#51. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got. - Author: Fay Weldon

#52. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#53. Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America. - Author: Curt Weldon

#54. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable. - Author: Fay Weldon

#55. There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it. - Author: Fay Weldon

#56. Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good. - Author: Fay Weldon

#57. scream as you leave - Author: Weldon Kees

#58. The Libyans gave us everything I asked for. - Author: Curt Weldon

#59. Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion. - Author: Fay Weldon

#60. Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement. - Author: Fay Weldon

#61. And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#62. With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. - Author: Curt Weldon

#63. This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. - Author: Curt Weldon

#64. There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. - Author: Fay Weldon

#65. It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#66. Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ... - Author: Fay Weldon

#67. What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves? - Author: Weldon Kees

#68. I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all. - Author: Fay Weldon

#69. By and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope. - Author: Fay Weldon

#70. She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry. - Author: Fay Weldon

#71. The really odd, unsettling thing was that Batman was smiling. Not - Author: Glen Weldon

#72. Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. - Author: Faye Weldon

#73. There is nothing more defenseless than a naked man. - Author: Phaedra Weldon

#74. During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate. - Author: Fay Weldon

#75. Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. - Author: Fay Weldon

#76. You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people. - Author: Fay Weldon

#77. I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#78. The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. - Author: Fay Weldon

#79. One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. - Author: Fay Weldon

#80. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. - Author: Fay Weldon

#81. This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#82. Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her. - Author: Fay Weldon

#83. Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#84. There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#85. Swan renders the gathering amusingly, depicting the vile android Brainiac, scourge of the galaxy, sitting on Clark's ottoman and chatting away with Luthor as if he's at some kind of Stitch-n-Bitch-of-Doom. - Author: Glen Weldon

#86. But if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#87. I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. - Author: Fay Weldon

#88. It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#89. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#90. I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation. - Author: Curt Weldon

#91. Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today? - Author: Fay Weldon

#92. I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation. - Author: Fay Weldon

#93. Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. - Author: Fay Weldon

#94. For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#95. ...the performative online biliousness that has come to be known as trolling... - Author: Glen Weldon

#96. I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? - Author: Fay Weldon

#97. Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon. - Author: Fay Weldon

#98. I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race. - Author: James Weldon Johnson

#99. I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day. - Author: Fay Weldon

#100. A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels. - Author: Fay Weldon