James Lawson Quotes

Yes, Detective Mitchell James Lawson was stubborn. More stubborn than me. Damn.

The doctrines known as Calvinism are not something that emerged late in church history, but rather are that which takes its origins in the teachings of Jesus.1 —James Montgomery Boice

This is exactly what I meant by unfair, Abe. If I woulda brought a guy home and announced, ‘He’s staying with me in my room,’ both you and Hank would’ve trussed him up and dragged him off Lawson land.” “Not the same thing, Celia.” Her gray eyes narrowed. “Why? Because you both have dicks? Or because you both are dicks?

o step into the pulpit is to enter onto holy ground. To stand behind an open Bible demands no trifling with sacred things. To be a spokesman for God requires utmost concern and care in handling and proclaiming the Word. Rightly does Scripture warn, "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness" (James 3:1).

own independent exhibition, marketing it as an American Salon des Refusés. In February 1908 eight painters showcased their work at the Macbeth Galleries. The Eight, as critic James Huneker baptized them, included Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn—the Philadelphia Five—and three others, stylistically different but equally determined to crack open NAD’s restrictive practices: symbolist Arthur B. Davies (who was well wired into wealthy New York collector circles), Impressionist/realist Ernest Lawson, and Postimpressionist Maurice Prendergast. (Davies and Lawson had been among the blackballed in 1907.)

If sadness blocks out the light you just got to run faster to the light and if sadness catches up just keep going

James was generous with his time to any friend who needed it—as well as to some, like Lawson, who did not! When one friend had eye trouble and could not read, James spent an hour each evening reading out his bookwork for the next day. He bucked up fellow students when they were depressed and on several occasions nursed others who were sick. He helped freshmen who were having trouble with their studies. He also found time to keep up a lively correspondence with his father, Aunt Jane, Lewis Campbell and others.

It’s only a matter of gaining time!” cried Mouch. “There isn’t any time left to gain.” “All we need is a chance!” cried Lawson. “There are no chances left.” “It’s only until we recover!” cried Holloway. “There is no way to recover.” “Only until our policies begin to work!” cried Dr. Ferris. “There is no way to make the irrational work.” There was no answer. “What can save you now?” “Oh, you’ll do something!” cried James Taggart.

James uses the unusual and unexpected word "tongue" in James 3:6-8 to vividly describe human speech and dramatically emphasize the destructiveness of uncontrolled speech..

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1973). A memoir that follows seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family’s journey as they are forced into the Manzanar internment camp. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, edited by Linda Gordon, Gary Y. Okihiro (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006). A collection of images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange, originally censored by the US Army. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps, by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald (Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 2005). Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, edited by Lawson Fusao Inada (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000). An anthology of poetry, prose, documents, drawings, and photographs.

Pakistanis love cricket as fervently as Indians – maybe even more. Geoff Lawson, the former Australia fast bowler and Pakistan national team coach, told me he thought Pakistanis cared more about cricket ‘because there’s not a whole lot else for them to do. It’s either cricket or the mosque’.

Ještě před šesti týdny jezdil spoj číslo 193, vzpomněla si. Ten byl poslán s nákladem oceli nikoli do Faulktonu v Nebrasce, kde již dva týdny nečinně stála Spencerova továrna na obráběcí stroje, nejlepší strojařský závod, který v zemi ještě zbýval, protože čekala na materiál, nýbrž do Sand Creeku v Illinois, kde se firma Confederate Machines již přes rok utápěla v dluzích a vyráběla nespolehlivé zboží v nepravidelných intervalech. Ocel jí přidělil úřední výnos zdůvodněný tím, že Spencerova továrna je bohatý koncern, který si může dovolit počkat, zatímco Confederate Machines je na dně a nelze dopustit, aby se položila úplně, neboť je jediným zdrojem živobytí pro celé městečko Sand Creek. Spencerova továrna zavřela brány před měsícem, Confederate Machines dva týdny nato. Obyvatelům Sand Creeku byl sice přiznán nárok na podporu, v prázdných sýpkách se však pro ně tak narychlo žádné jídlo nenašlo. Nařízením Jednotícího výboru proto stát zabavil farmářům z Nebrasky zrní na osev a vlak číslo 194 nyní vezl nezasetou sklizeň a budoucnost občanů Nebrasky hladovějícím občanům Illinois. „V této osvícené éře,“ kázal Eugene Lawson v rozhlase, „jsme konečně seznali, že každý jsme strážcem svého bratra.“ „…v dnešní neklidné době celonárodní nouze,“ pokračoval James Taggart s pohledem upřeným na mapu, „není jistě příjemné, že v některých divizích musíme odkládat výplatu a vršit mzdové nedoplatky, je to samozřejmě dočasný stav, nicméně –“ Dagny se tiše zasmála. „Plán sjednocení železnic nefunguje, co, Jime?