William James Quotes

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

William James

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Food
  • Generosity

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Strengths
  • Our
  • Failings

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Responsibility

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Spring

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • May
  • U.S.
  • Attached

• The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May

• Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

  

  Matt Czuchry
  • City
  • Blue

• There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Break

• If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

  

  William James
  • May
  • Universe
  • Religion