James Allen Quotes

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

James Allen

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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

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• 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

• Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Marriage

• Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

  

  David Slade
  • Listening

• He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Forever
  • Hands
  • Memory

• I wish Andy all the very best for his future, which I am certain will be a successful one.

  

  David Cameron
  • Future
  • Wish

• Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Thoughts

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

  

  James Allen