James Lane Allen Quotes

[Referring to George W. Bush] Anybody who has to spend all his time demonstrating his manhood has somehow got to know he ain't got it.

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

We are not as strong as we think we are

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.