William James Quotes

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

Quotes to Explore

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

Kate Reardon
- Fashion
- Out
- Polo
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

Walter Kirn
- Up
- World
- Great
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Venus Williams
- Important
- Happy
- Healthy
I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

Foster Friess
- World
- Work
- Law
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke
- Past
- Ocean
- Creating
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

Radha Mitchell
- People
- Time
- Different