William James Quotes

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

William James

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• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Artist

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Political
  • Small
  • Community

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.

  

  Bobb Biehl
  • Imagine
  • Able
  • Realizing

• God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Persistence

• Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.

  

  Albert Mackey
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Freemasonry

• We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

  

  William James
  • Love
  • Merit
  • Redeemer