William James Quotes

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

William James

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• I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beginning
  • Failure
  • End

• Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Way
  • Ball
  • Runner

• We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I put myself through college playing pool.

  

  Walter Alston
  • College
  • Myself
  • Pool

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Music

• Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • People
  • Passion

• I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Thanks

• My kids learned to be independent.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Independent

• Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Thinking
  • History
  • House

• Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life

• America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I make sure that I take good care of me.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good

• The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • College

• I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Music
  • Water
  • Rock

• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Soul
  • Friend
  • Husband

• I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Future
  • Crazy
  • Determination

• If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Food

• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

  

  William James