William James Quotes

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Shows
  • Down
  • Favorite

• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Road
  • Wait

• Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Turquoise

• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Family
  • Me
  • Always

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Work
  • Hope
  • United Nations

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Mistake
  • Better
  • Test

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Law

• The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I don't think they're in the majority. I have faith that things will change - I mean, just like everybody else, I don't fix my roof until it's actually leaking, but eventually, we all get round to doing it.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Slave

• I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Why
  • Body

• The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Philosophy