William James Quotes

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

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• I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • More

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Smile
  • Nervous
  • Friendliness

• You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Failure

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Never
  • Person
  • Calm

• American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • American
  • Historic

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Science
  • Faith

• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them. … In Sydney's zoo I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Why
  • American
  • High

• When I talk about movies like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives,' I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women's lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Baby

• The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

  

  William James
  • May
  • Faith
  • Example