William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Edmond Rostand -
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
J. C. Chandor -
There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
Jackee Harry -
My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
Jackie Collins -
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
Jack Layton
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
Mandy Patinkin -
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner -
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot -
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
Vernor Vinge -
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Eckhart Tolle -
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
Aaron Eckhart
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
We all have a weakness for beauty.
Albert Camus -
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
Marilyn Monroe -
There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
T. S. Eliot -
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Blaise Pascal