William James Quotes

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Find
  • Tough
  • Atmosphere

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Working
  • Camera
  • Pictures

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Work
  • Success
  • Guys

• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Unity

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Scripture
  • Then

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fire

• On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Art
  • Night

• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

  

  Henry St. John
  • Art
  • Politician
  • Virtue

• The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.

  

  Bob Barr
  • American
  • Vacation

• The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

  

  William James
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