Inevitability Quote by Marlon James Download Open image ““Come soon, or come late, if you put power in a man's hand, he going make a fist.”” — Marlon James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inevitability Power Violence
“We enter the world with fists closed and when we leave, our hands are open. He said I should make full use of the… — Debalina Haldar Copy Share Image
“you get nothing with a fist that you can’t get in multitudes with your hand open.” — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“If you cooperate, I promise not to hit you-much. If you don't cooperate…Well, I'll use my fists instead of an open hand got it?” — Amanda Bonilla Copy Share Image
“I will return more powerful than before. You are my eyes. You are my fists. You are my swords.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Do you not have hands? A woman can wield a weapon as easily as any man.” — Zetta Elliott Copy Share Image
“Okay, maybe I don't have to solve every problem with my fists...but every once in awhile, a situation arises that is substantially improved by… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
“Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting air all the way down, grabbing on to clumps of nothing and begging once, just once, just goddamn once, Jesus, you sniveling son of a mongrel bitch, just once that air gives a grip. And you land in… — Marlon James Copy Share
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the… — Marlon James Copy Share
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when to blow… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“The white man say we’re fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I” — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there is no… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting black man…..Maybe if she start to think that she not black or white, then she won’t have to care about neither man’s affairs. Maybe if she don’t care what other people think she be and start… — Marlon James Copy Share
“Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely… — David Guterson Copy Share
“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop the fox stealing the chicken, so there seems to be an inevitability to all that takes place at Mosel. This is a ghost story. And we have somehow become the ghosts of these young men who… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billion years our ancestors have managed to slip… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
