“Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?” WritingBelieveReasonShowsCareHurtWalksMistakePrinciplesWallQuittingSmokeMaking MistakesRejectsBelieve In YouWho CaresNever QuitAlways BelieveStay TrueCannonsNaysayersRejects You Author:James Lee Burke
“..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?” BelieveSchoolAsksSocialSituationKnownSonDrinkingWorkersSavedReformRemedyResortsPsychiatristAxiomsSocial WorkerActualityCounselor Author:James Lee Burke
“The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.” BelieveHappensSidesDeserveDiceMoney And Power Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.” ThinkingMenWayShouldBelieveHeartSometimesMomentsRememberFacesYoungGirlI BelieveTreeShareMarriedLonelyShould HaveBaseballEvery ManParksBuyingDiamondOaksOak TreeSnowball Author:James Lee Burke
“I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.” BelieveSoulChoicesI BelieveCausesConsciousKillersEraseTheologicalSerialsSerial KillerThumbprints Author:James Lee Burke
“I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.” PeopleMindBelieveStatesFactsHomeI BelieveWhiteLevelsNumbersKnownPovertyExampleIgnorancePoliticianRacismTalesVulnerableStomachTrashCursedLarge NumbersLouisianaElectorateNumbingChurningWhite TrashHome StatePicaresque Book:Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Source: Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
