William James Quotes

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

William James

• Tenderness
• Companionship
• Affinity

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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
  • Single
  • Health

• 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

• I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Important
  • Moving
  • Exercise

• What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Me
  • Look
  • Listen

• I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Romantic

• My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Husband

• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  

  George Archer
  • Friends
  • Fishing
  • Hunting

• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  

  William James
  • Tenderness
  • Companionship
  • Affinity