Quotes by James Jones, From Here to Eternity

Explore a curated collection of 17 quotes by James Jones, From Here to Eternity. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very sure source of persona — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move aro — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you co — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them "pin- — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else mu — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over seve — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it," Prew said."But I — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even no — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying t — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or T — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally. — James Jones, From Here to Eternity
The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we wer — James Jones, From Here to Eternity