Quotes with james

Quotes 701 till 720 of 802.

• Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

  Henry James
  American author (1843 - 1916)
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• Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.

  Bill Hader
  American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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• Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

  James Thurber
  American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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• We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  James Freeman Clarke
  American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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• We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

  James Madison
  American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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• We can make America what America must become.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

  James Truslow Adams
  American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

  James Boswell
  Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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• We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

  James E. Burke
   
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• We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
  

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

  James A. Froude
  British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-destruction
• reservations
• retrograding
• progressing
• responsible
• experiments

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