James herriot poem (2)

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable' things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James W. Fulbright

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

James Matthew Barrie, Sr.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

William James

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

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

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

James Matthew Barrie

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James Matthew Barrie

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

James A. Garfield

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

James Patterson

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James A. Baldwin

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

James Taylor

I'm not maintaining that logical progression is the key to poetic structure. But I'd say that it is an element.

James Dickey

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

James Randi

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

James Longstreet