Leonid Mcgill Quotes

That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [ ... ], there might even be men with guns. ~ Walter Mosley

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.' ~ Walter Mosley

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe. ~ Walter Mosley

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too."
"I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer."
"She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger."
"Tell her that the air conditioner was on. ~ Walter Mosley

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince. ~ Walter Mosley

Most so-called success in the world is slavery. ~ Bryant McGill

Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect. ~ Leonid Hurwicz

There is no room for reverence in a mind fettered with ceaseless query. ~ Bryant McGill

Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people. ~ Bryant McGill

The truth can do years of work in seconds. ~ Bryant McGill

Love can see the limitless beauty within self and within others. ~ Bryant McGill

All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature. ~ Bryant McGill

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth. ~ Bryant McGill

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student. ~ Bryant McGill

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself. ~ Bryant McGill

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself. ~ Bryant McGill

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ~ Bryant H. McGill

I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. ~ Leonid Afremov

There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced. ~ Bryant McGill

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control. ~ Bryant McGill

It's amazing what money can't do. ~ Bryant McGill

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go. ~ Bryant McGill

Love can take you from any depth and place you on the highest mountain. ~ Bryant McGill

Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it. ~ Bryant McGill

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him - as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime. ~ Leonid Andreyev

When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually. ~ Bryant McGill

Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need. ~ Bryant McGill

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. ~ Bryant H. McGill

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom. ~ Bryant McGill

Let your existence be enough for a moment. ~ Bryant McGill

You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you. ~ Bryant McGill

Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss ~ Bryant McGill

Do not be limited by the judgements of others. ~ Bryant McGill

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Fear causes you to feel small and powerless. ~ Bryant McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Maybe you are a pig and don't even know it. ~ Bryant McGill

Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo. ~ Bryant McGill

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices. ~ Bryant McGill

Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things. ~ Bryant McGill

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair. ~ Bryant McGill

Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life! ~ Bryant McGill

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil. ~ Bryant McGill

Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict. ~ Bryant McGill

We live in a culture of violence. ~ Bryant McGill

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. ~ Bryant McGill

Do not stand in the way of your own good. Get rid of your bad thoughts, inferior attitudes and limited behaviors and good will be attracted to you. What you give out will be returned to you. It's not easy. It's not magic. But it works. ~ Bryant McGill