James Stephens Quotes

By having much, you are fitted to have more.

James Stephens

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• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Roads

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Friend
  • Thought

• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Focus
  • Priority
  • Strategy

• When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

  

  Banks
  • Long
  • You
  • First

• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Relationships

• There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Women
  • Morning

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Whiskey

• When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Earth
  • Space

• I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Eyes

• 'Your God doesn’t care about you at all,' Travis said.'All the more reason to care about myself and others.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God

• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Song
  • Garden

• Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

  

  Marlon James
  • Church

• It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Say
  • Fair
  • Prudent

• Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

  

  Kathleen Casey
  • Shape
  • Breasts
  • Unforgiving

• By having much, you are fitted to have more.

  

  James Stephens