William James Quotes

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Band

• The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Francine Busby
  • American
  • Learn
  • Operations

• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Football
  • Laugh

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Search

• I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Politics

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Fun
  • Partner
  • Best Friend

• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Old
  • Suicide
  • Frightened

• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • May

• She's not a bad girl becauseShe made me see, hmmm...How love could be.But she's a bad girl because (bad girl because)She wants to be free, hmmmm... (bad girl because)She wants to be free (bad girl)

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Free

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Book
  • Doe
  • Dictionary

• Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Want
  • Media
  • Doe

• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

  

  William James
  • Logic
  • Doe
  • Intuition