"Did you think you could have the good……" — Ray Stannard Baker
"Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body."
—
Ray Stannard Baker
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
25 Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker has 25 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of…
-
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement.…
-
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this…
-
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of…
-
Nothing lasts-not even pain.
-
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no…
-
Adventure is not outside; it is within.
-
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not…
-
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it…
-
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than,…
-
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed…
See all 25 quotes by Ray Stannard Baker »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »