Best Mick Jagger Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mick Jagger
It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. — Mick Jagger
Best Mogens Jallberg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mogens Jallberg
In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes. — Mogens Jallberg
Best Alice James Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alice James
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. — Alice James
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James
Best Anna James Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anna James
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us. — Anna James
Best Clive James Quotes: The most famous quotes by Clive James
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. — Clive James
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. — Clive James
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology. — Clive James
Best Henry James Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue. — Henry James
Live all you can – it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had — Henry James
Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind. — Henry James
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. — Henry James
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. — Henry James
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things. — Henry James
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be — Henry James
Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. — Henry James
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. — Henry James
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. — Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. — Henry James
Best James Quotes: The most famous quotes by James
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind. — James
Best Nora Joyce, to her husband James Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Why dont you write books people can read — Nora Joyce, to her husband James
Best P. D. James Quotes: The most famous quotes by P. D. James
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. — P. D. James
What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. — P. D. James
Best William James Quotes: The most famous quotes by William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. — William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. — William James
When a thing is new, people say ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say ‘Anyway, it is not new.’ — William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. — William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. — William James
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. — William James
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil — William James
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. — William James
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. — William James
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. — William James
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. — William James
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will. — William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. — William James
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. — William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. — William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. — William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. — William James
Religion, whatever it is, is a man’s total reaction upon life. — William James
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ‘as if’ technique. — William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. — William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. — William James
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures. — William James
Best Anna Jameson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anna Jameson
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. — Anna Jameson
Best Storm Jameson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Storm Jameson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. — Storm Jameson
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. — Storm Jameson
Best Hakim Jami Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hakim Jami
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself –Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being. — Hakim Jami
If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head. — Hakim Jami
Best Kaleel Jamison Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kaleel Jamison
Relationships–of all kinds–are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. — Kaleel Jamison
Best Gerald Jampolsky Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. — Gerald Jampolsky
Best Elizabeth Janeway Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elizabeth Janeway
I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I’m thirty-one. — Elizabeth Janeway
We don’t get offered crises, they arrive. — Elizabeth Janeway
Best Tove Jansson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tove Jansson
You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. — Tove Jansson
Best Samuel S. Janus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Samuel S. Janus
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage. — Samuel S. Janus
Best Randall Jarrell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Randall Jarrell
But be, as you have been, my happiness… — Randall Jarrell
Best Bede Jarrett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bede Jarrett
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough. — Bede Jarrett
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. — Bede Jarrett
Best Alfred Jarry Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred Jarry
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. — Alfred Jarry
Best Javan Quotes: The most famous quotes by Javan
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes…just be an illusion. — Javan
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. — Javan
Best Leon Jaworski Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leon Jaworski
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one – absolutely no one – is above the law. — Leon Jaworski
Best Julian Jaynes Quotes: The most famous quotes by Julian Jaynes
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes
Best Richard Jefferies Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Jefferies
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Richard Jefferies
It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine. — Richard Jefferies
Best Robinson Jeffers Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robinson Jeffers
Civilization is a transient sickness. — Robinson Jeffers
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. — Robinson Jeffers
Best Susan Jeffers Quotes: The most famous quotes by Susan Jeffers
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. — Susan Jeffers
Best Charles E. Jefferson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles E. Jefferson
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. — Charles E. Jefferson
Best Thomas Jefferson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. — Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson
Every man has two countries his own and France. — Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. — Thomas Jefferson
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. — Thomas Jefferson
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence … too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. — Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. — Thomas Jefferson
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. — Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. — Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. — Thomas Jefferson
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. — Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. — Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it…To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. — Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority. — Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. — Thomas Jefferson
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. — Thomas Jefferson
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. — Thomas Jefferson
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so. — Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. — Thomas Jefferson
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. — Thomas Jefferson
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. — Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. — Thomas Jefferson
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. — Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. — Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. — Thomas Jefferson
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. — Thomas Jefferson
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. — Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. — Thomas Jefferson
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye. — Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. — Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. — Thomas Jefferson
…it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. — Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. — Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. — Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. — Thomas Jefferson
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. — Thomas Jefferson
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita — Thomas Jefferson
Information is the currency of democracy. — Thomas Jefferson
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar — Thomas Jefferson
When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. — Thomas Jefferson
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. — Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly. — Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate – to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. — Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . . — Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. — Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. — Thomas Jefferson
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it. — Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. — Thomas Jefferson
Health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. — Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. — Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. — Thomas Jefferson
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. — Thomas Jefferson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. — Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Thomas Jefferson
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. — Thomas Jefferson
Best Lord Jeffery Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Jeffery
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. — Lord Jeffery
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