William James Quotes
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
Quotes to Explore
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.
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I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
