William James Quotes

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Courage

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Talk
  • Solution
  • Migration

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Opinion

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Interesting
  • Star
  • Random

• I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• 'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  

  Chris Noth
  • Law
  • Bored

• Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Honor
  • Sin
  • Wealth

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Inarticulate