James Thurber Quotes

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

James Thurber

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Money
  • Something
  • Worth

• My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • You
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Really

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • You
  • Friend
  • Parent

• My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • You
  • Better

• I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Wear
  • Rather
  • Rust

• To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Honest
  • Just
  • Become

• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Hair

• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers
  • Disease
  • Illness
  • Surgery

• I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Choices
  • Stand
  • Clear

• Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Strong
  • Driving
  • Big

• Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Successful

• It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Good
  • Red

• I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Opportunity

• I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Wrong
  • Confused
  • Complicated

• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

  

  James Thurber