James herriot poem (10)

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

James F. Cooper

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

James Stockdale

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Brion James

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

James Lovelock

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

James Forrestal

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

James Welch

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

James Allen

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

James Bovard

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

James E. Rogers

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

James Monroe

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

James Levine

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

James Lovelock

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

James Carville

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

James E. Jones

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

James Q. Wilson

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

James Lipton

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

James Randi

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

James Joyce