William James Quotes

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

William James

• Real
• Night
• Perfect
• Silence
• Darkness

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Money
  • Night
  • Day

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Many
  • Moderation

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Green

• Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Just
  • Cheese

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Night
  • Fire
  • Dignity

• In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Night
  • Thought

• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Night
  • London
  • Bridges

• Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Live
  • Church
  • Jesus

• My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Friend
  • Sun
  • Sunflower

• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  

  Plutarch
  • Spirit
  • Imagine
  • Souls

• The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Night
  • Perfect