William James Quotes

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

William James

• Destiny
• Influence
• Opening
• Fulfilled

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Prophet
  • Biblical

• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• I love women more than anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Love
  • More

• It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Amazing
  • Feel
  • Retirement

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Survival

• My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Me

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• I believe in destiny, God's hand and hard work.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Friend
  • Influence
  • Facebook

• What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Believe

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Law
  • Miracle
  • Creation

• We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • People
  • Learn
  • Stories

• We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

  

  William James
  • Destiny
  • Influence
  • Opening