James Arthur Quotes

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

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• Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Heart
  • You
  • Decision

• When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Deep

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Sides

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Day

• I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Friends
  • Lot

• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Die
  • Storm

• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • First
  • Brave

• I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Country
  • Strong

• I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Tragedy
  • Delightful

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Serious
  • Hands
  • Smile

• On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • You
  • Questions

• John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Running
  • Ignorance
  • Choice

• To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind

• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Up
  • Energy

• Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

  

  Ben Schott
  • World
  • Writing

• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• Of all arts, painting indisputably requires the greatest victim.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Painting
  • Victim
  • Requires

• I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Try
  • Adversity
  • Embrace

• My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

  

  James Arthur