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Him Quotes by Ernest Gaines
- I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him?…
- Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything.…
- "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as…
- We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of…
- Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't…
- Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden