William James Quotes

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

William James

• Tenderness
• Companionship
• Affinity

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• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sacrifice

• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War

• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Jump

• We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

  

  Bernice King
  • Violence

• I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Eyes

• David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Character

• If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Health
  • Single

• Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That's the hardest, most elusive one of all.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

  

  Kathryn Prescott
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • Life
  • Universe

• It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Life
  • Death
  • Victory

• By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

  

  John Fleming
  • Time
  • Family

• Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Keith Kellogg
  • Important
  • Immigration

• Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Companionship

• It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Boat
  • Sitting
  • Affinity

• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Passion
  • Interest
  • Enemies

• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  

  William James
  • Tenderness
  • Companionship
  • Affinity