James Allen Quotes

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Song
  • Church

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Think
  • Past
  • Lie

• Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Art
  • Night
  • Brother

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Meditation

• The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Idea
  • Working
  • Twitter

• In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Job
  • Present
  • Company

• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Productivity

• You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Growing

• You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit

• Near this spotAre deposited the Remains of oneWho possessed Beauty without Vanity,Strength without Insolence,Courage without Ferocity,And all the virtues of Man, without his Vices.This Praise, which would be unmeaning FlatteryIf inscribed over human ashes,Is but a just tribute to the Memory ofBOATSWAIN, a DOG

  

  Lord Byron
  • Courage
  • Dog

• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

  

  John Adams
  • May
  • Forever
  • Moral

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Tree

• For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Intuition

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Earth
  • Space

• She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist’s conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mad
  • Back
  • Impression

• The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

  

  James Allen