William James Quotes
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.William James
Quotes to Explore
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
Olivia Cooke -
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson -
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Dan Quisenberry -
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
P. T. Barnum -
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Zaha Hadid -
I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
Angelina Jolie
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
Van Jones -
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Tom Stoppard -
I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
Nan Kempner -
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
C. S. Lewis -
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde -
We are very, very, very concerned with the situation.
Javier Solana
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
Stephen Curry -
No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
Paul Auster -
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison -
Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
Sophocles -
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman -
If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition; it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.
William P. Young
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That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Michael Johnson -
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
William James