C.D. Payne Quotes

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Being unique is highly over rated.

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

The Jews got together to protect him. And I'll prove it.

You go outside with me right now, we'll ask twelve people on the street what they think about Jews. And all I need's one.

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect.

As a Jew, your passions were so inflamed by that message, you made up a lie to implicate my client, isn't that true?

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

God is as real as a station wagon.

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.

We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.

We made love outdoorsWithout a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.