William James Quotes

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

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• In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Being

• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Yourself

• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Song

• I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

  

  Antony Hewish
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

  

  William James
  • Believe