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Let me take away all your pain;
Let me rekindle you...
ANAMIKA MISHRA When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the wo...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We outplayed Baldwin in the first half. Baldwin is a strong team and took over the game.
DOUG KELLY A much bigger trend for last spring, but that doesn't mean it's over. It's a matter of personal tast...
LAURIE TROTT I try to get the personality of the person involved. I like writing concertos because I can tailor t...
JENNIFER HIGDON I know how hard he works. We wanted to win in the semis because then you get a good draw in the firs...
BILL SUTTON Let your innocence show as brilliant as your dreams because only then can you discover the true beau...
IMANIA MARGRIA Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you'...
JERRY SEINFELD Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you'...
JERRY SEINFELD Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit wit...
ISABEL YOSITO "Your personality was made from two other personalities (mother/father), so in one sense you were bo...
ED BULEY you will get more then 100 chances in your life it's just up to you how many you wanna take advantag...
SUNNY SHARMA I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le...
SARAH MCLACHLAN If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
DOUGLAS ADAMS They want incendiary reactions. Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron and ...
MICHAEL LEVINE They want incendiary reactions, ... Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron ...
MICHAEL LEVINE The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that at...
FREDDY ADU You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same o...
CURTIS JACKSON Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you&...
JERRY SEINFELD Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can...
RICHARD BANDLER If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
DOUGLAS ADAMS where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would...
MARSHALL BRAIN Words are important; actions are vital, but don’t just show your thoughts through your words or ac...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That's how you get into leadership. It's not your personality or your charm. It's whether or not you...
BILL ALLISON get out of your cage and take over your stage
IKECHUKWU JOSEPH The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic li...
CRISS JAMI Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
AMY STRUM ALCOTT Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
AMY ALCOTT When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you...
CHRIS PRENTISS Mind your strength! Let people know that you are strong and let them see how strong you are, and who...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.
C.S. LEWIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Now that we made it to today, how was your yesterday? Do you see how life works. Do you see how you ...
TARIDEANA BREAZEALE Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show you...
BILLY IDOL You don’t need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that’s how you get ov...
HOLLY HOOD In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
JEFF DUNCAN Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right...
ROY BENNETT This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, h...
ROB PORTMAN The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON Let yourself take control of how your idea will take shape of a reality, instead of letting idea dra...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Looks get you noticed, your personality gets you married.
ARINGAS EIDUKONIS Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the pa...
JOHN MAXWELL My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They wi...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER 'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling y...
GREG GUTFELD Your attitude should not be a reflection of how others treat you, instead it should be a reflection ...
TABISH AHMED SHAH You're way better than that song choice. It didn't show your range, it didn't show your personality.
PAULA ABDUL Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's pr...
ADAM WEST If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the coll...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Let me show you how it's done ... Loser!
BABE RUTH Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let you...
JAY ASHER Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN want to. Adam wasn’t angry. He wouldn’t hurt me. I let him pull the power of his pack over me li...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ...
C. JOYBELL C. Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
MAYA ANGELOU One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to fin...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to...
JACK HANDY Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take r...
ROY T. BENNETT You could tell it aggravated him a little bit, ... When the show was over, the guy said, 'I guess I'...
KEVIN LAFFERTY Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN What makes me laugh is how people are saying he let his team down, ... How many times does a coach g...
MARSHALL FAULK The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and ste...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don't wear your personality on your body. I...
JAMES COBURN It's great to show fashion to press and buyers, but there are only 700 or 800 of them who get to see...
ANDY HILFIGER Think about what you like and then think about why - was it the shape? The hem length? And then repe...
EVA CHEN Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. ...
SMILEY BLANTON How would your life be different if...you had a plan of action towards your goals? Let today be the ...
STEVE MARABOLI It's OK when you're over there, but it's more difficult when you get home because then they take you...
CHARLEY TRUJILLO To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
BLAKE SHELTON When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV Life. Life is a show. It's up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live yo...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA He projected a sense of a strong personality, of a guy who you could look at and see he's a leader m...
EDWARD LINCOLN If you understand mechanistically how something works, then you will know how best to fix it.
ERIC KNUDSEN People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor ...
MITT ROMNEY You always got the sense that Irving was performing himself. He had a very strong sense of himself a...
BRIAN TREHEARNE Create your own personal brand to stand apart from the crowd. Package your unique talents, style, pe...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Take the path less traveled and learn from your mistakes. Don’t just let life happen around you; c...
MATTHEW T. CROSS You take a look at that run of Tony Hunt's and you see how (Williams) literally just busted his butt...
JOE PATERNO The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invent...
C.S. LEWIS Come on.... Say the same over and over…. Do the same over and over, show your buddies that you hav...
DEYTH BANGER You see a guy like Marquand get thrust into a role and you're not sure what's going to happen, but t...
MIKE HOLMGREN Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. Th...
DAVID MORSE Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your person...
TARA STRONG No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqua...
MITCH ALBOM The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
DAVID MORRISSEY If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your ...
TIMOTHY LEARY Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your brea...
UNKNOWN We led at the half, but Adam got in foul trouble and we let one get away from us.
BRIAN LEMPOLA You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
DAVE WINER
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
ADAM BALDWIN I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
ADAM BALDWIN The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin...
ADAM BALDWIN I'm not much of a jokester.
ADAM BALDWIN My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
ADAM BALDWIN I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
ADAM BALDWIN I think work begets work.
ADAM BALDWIN What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
ADAM BALDWIN The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines....
ADAM BALDWIN I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
ADAM BALDWIN A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ...
ADAM BALDWIN I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
ADAM BALDWIN It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A...
ADAM BALDWIN I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the ...
ADAM BALDWIN Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
ADAM BALDWIN The top-notch shows have pretty good crews and I'm a big fan of hard-working camera crews. They make...
ADAM BALDWIN I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what peo...
ADAM BALDWIN It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A...
ADAM BALDWIN I mean, I'm a guy with three kids. I'm home usually Friday nights, but I know most people who aren't...
ADAM BALDWIN I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the part...
ADAM BALDWIN I don't want to explode,
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ADAM BALDWIN There's a definite Boy-named-Sue bitterness emanating from Jayne. You don't cross him, you don't tru...
ADAM BALDWIN It could potentially be something big but come what may, we have closure on a very sad chapter of ou...
ADAM BALDWIN A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e...
ADAM BALDWIN Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conver...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Than...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospi...
TAMMY BALDWIN I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at pers...
TAMMY BALDWIN When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
TAMMY BALDWIN I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologie...
TAMMY BALDWIN Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents...
TAMMY BALDWIN In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented o...
TAMMY BALDWIN I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
TAMMY BALDWIN Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
TAMMY BALDWIN The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
TAMMY BALDWIN From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
TAMMY BALDWIN It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
TAMMY BALDWIN Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is...
TAMMY BALDWIN I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who ...
TAMMY BALDWIN All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... becaus...
TAMMY BALDWIN Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I&...
IRELAND BALDWIN I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, ...
IRELAND BALDWIN There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundre...
IRELAND BALDWIN I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so m...
IRELAND BALDWIN When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No wa...
IRELAND BALDWIN I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest...
IRELAND BALDWIN I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
IRELAND BALDWIN I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have ...
KATE BALDWIN Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a...
KATE BALDWIN I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
KATE BALDWIN Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with...
KATE BALDWIN I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
KATE BALDWIN 'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.
KATE BALDWIN Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a perfor...
KATE BALDWIN If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
KATE BALDWIN One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever agai...
FAITH BALDWIN Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
FAITH BALDWIN Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, howeve...
FAITH BALDWIN I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with th...
DANIEL BALDWIN Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I...
DANIEL BALDWIN What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not b...
DANIEL BALDWIN The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
DANIEL BALDWIN There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are...
DANIEL BALDWIN I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
DANIEL BALDWIN My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that...
DANIEL BALDWIN It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm...
DANIEL BALDWIN If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can'...
DANIEL BALDWIN I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
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DANIEL BALDWIN I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
DANIEL BALDWIN At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we...
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DANIEL BALDWIN Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
DANIEL BALDWIN I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it bec...
DANIEL BALDWIN The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash...
ALEC BALDWIN I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress thing...
HAILEY BALDWIN I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermat...
HAILEY BALDWIN I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, thoug...
HAILEY BALDWIN Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y...
HAILEY BALDWIN You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a l...
HAILEY BALDWIN All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with fr...
HAILEY BALDWIN I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's ...
HAILEY BALDWIN My style kind of differs - sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes ...
HAILEY BALDWIN The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. W...
HAILEY BALDWIN For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really...
HAILEY BALDWIN If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
HAILEY BALDWIN I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the...
HAILEY BALDWIN I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers ...
HAILEY BALDWIN I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal...
HAILEY BALDWIN Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kep...
HAILEY BALDWIN My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can ra...
HAILEY BALDWIN I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about...
HAILEY BALDWIN The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no perso...
HAILEY BALDWIN I would never pose topless.
HAILEY BALDWIN We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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BALDWIN SPENCER Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the...
BALDWIN SPENCER It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of c...
BALDWIN SPENCER There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
BALDWIN SPENCER A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid
STANLEY BALDWIN To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting t...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
JAMES BALDWIN Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and t...
JAMES BALDWIN The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
JAMES BALDWIN The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil...
STANLEY BALDWIN I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beac...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the i...
JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered ...
JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more...
JAMES BALDWIN Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES BALDWIN Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and th...
JAMES BALDWIN Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES BALDWIN Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES BALDWIN Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES BALDWIN Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
FAITH BALDWIN Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty o...
JAMES BALDWIN The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES BALDWIN The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea...
JAMES BALDWIN The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the poin...
JAMES BALDWIN If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described...
JAMES BALDWIN Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ...
JAMES BALDWIN People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES BALDWIN When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ...
JAMES BALDWIN I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES BALDWIN There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES BALDWIN It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
JAMES BALDWIN But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo...
JAMES BALDWIN Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people ...
JAMES BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES BALDWIN We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we ...
JAMES BALDWIN We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man...
JAMES BALDWIN Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts,...
FAITH BALDWIN Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
STANLEY BALDWIN Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in...
JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES BALDWIN People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on...
JAMES BALDWIN The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his...
JAMES BALDWIN An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre...
JAMES BALDWIN An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience...
JAMES BALDWIN The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa...
JAMES BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
JAMES BALDWIN So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting...
JAMES BALDWIN The future is... black.
JAMES BALDWIN Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
JAMES BALDWIN He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ...
JAMES BALDWIN The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
JAMES BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut...
JAMES BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili...
JAMES BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on th...
JAMES BALDWIN I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th...
MONICA BALDWIN I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN