William James Quotes

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

William James

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Lie
  • Data

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Men
  • Culture
  • End

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
  • Believe
  • War

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Men
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• I'm not sure that 'Iron Man' is a superhero movie. I think towards the end of the movie, Iron Man pretends to be a superhero - he's entertained by that notion. I think 'X-Men' is a sci-fi movie.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Men
  • Movie
  • Superhero

• War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Game
  • Reputation
  • Troops

• Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

  

  Charles Best
  • School
  • Quality

• I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Serious

• Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • War
  • Habit