James Allen Quotes

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Republican
  • Definition
  • Bush

• As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Female

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Me

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• If you're offended, it's your problem.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Problem
  • Offended

• I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Education
  • Child

• Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Nobody
  • Misfortune

• I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Know
  • Me
  • Reserve

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

  

  John Foster Dulles
  • Men
  • Long
  • War

• The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • World
  • Music

• One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Time
  • Game
  • Lost

• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
  • God
  • Mind

• Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • Success
  • Pray
  • Fail

• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

  

  James Allen
  • Why
  • True
  • Success