James M. Barrie Quotes

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

James M. Barrie

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• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Different
  • Long

• I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• I was tested against the best.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Against
  • Tested

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • You
  • Never
  • Bend

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • God
  • Learning
  • California

• The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Time
  • Comfort
  • Fools

• If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • You
  • Writer
  • Anything

• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Soul
  • Procrastination

• His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Fire
  • Ocean

• We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Style
  • Focus

• Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Small
  • Universe

• People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

  

  Jon Voight
  • People
  • Up

• I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

  

  James M. Barrie