James Stephens Quotes

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

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• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Know
  • Coffee

• Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Travel
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Help
  • Change
  • Passion

• You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Trying
  • You
  • Thousand

• I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fun
  • Career
  • College

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Done
  • Boundaries

• The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • You
  • Look
  • Boring

• I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Different
  • Rest
  • Woman

• I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Child

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • May
  • Everyone

• The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Evil
  • Story
  • Genocide

• 'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fear
  • Loyalty

• Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Done
  • Dream

• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Beauty
  • Broken
  • Flower

• I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

  

  Anton Yelchin

• There's always tomorrow and it always gets better.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Always
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Work
  • Children
  • Present

• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  

  James Stephens