James Veitch Quotes

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit ~ James Lee Burke

We exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to save the world from catastrophe. ~ James Dashner

A law is not a law without coercion behind it. ~ James A. Garfield

As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. ~ Bill Bryson

Here she comes now, say, Mony, Mony. Shoot 'em down, turn around, come on, Mony. ~ Tommy James

Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed. ~ James Carlos Blake

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. ~ James Whistler

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. ~ James Dickey

With Outlook bikers in Australia, if you've got a little emblazoned thing that's got 'one percent' on it, that means you're one percent of the population and a dangerous criminal. If it's '99,' it means you're kind of a nice recreational biker. If it's 'zero percenter,' it just shows you're a total deadbeat. ~ James Frecheville

The very first thing I saw at this year's Telluride Film Festival was sheer bliss. "Lava," a musical romance from Pixar Animation, was one of the shorts that traditionally precede almost every festival screening; the director was James Ford Murphy. The story, spanning millions of years in 7 minutes, starts with a lonely Hawaiian volcano who, crooning to ukulele accompaniment, yearns for "someone to lava. ~ Anonymous

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity. ~ Humphrey Bogart

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. ~ James Martineau

The strong times, the weak times
they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together. ~ Timothy James Beck

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ~ James Anthony Froude

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. ~ William James

We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel ... And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it. ~ James Hillman

Well, I don't know what to do first. I mean, should I take the piss out of you" - he points at me - "for the TV interview? Or you" - he points at James - "for the fan mail? ~ Sarah Mason

They ate dinner in silence. Her husband did not look at her. her face annoyed him, he did not know why. She could be good-looking but there were times when she was not. Her face was like a series of photographs, some of which ought to have been thrown away. Tonight it was like that. ~ James Salter

I slip it into my inside pocket, pleased that it will rest close to my heart. ~ E.L. James

Never trust a man who can dance. ~ E.L. James

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient. ~ William James

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community. ~ James R. Clapper

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty. ~ James K. Morrow

Doesn't take much before we have to compromise ourselves, does it?" "Get born," Michio said, pulling ~ James S.A. Corey

When we decide what to do, we in effect proclaim our wish that our conduct be made into a "universal law." Therefore when a rational being decides to treat people in a certain way he decrees that in his judgement, this is the way people ought to be treated. Thus if we treat him the same way in return we are doing nothing more than treating him as he has decided people are to be treated. ~ James Rachels

Maserati. Coco's beloved ~ James Patterson

If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate
jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country.
Maximum Ride, School's Out
Forever ~ James Patterson

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has progressed so broadly as it has, since most of its thought and all of its activity must run through the narrow neck of this one funnel ~ James Weldon Johnson

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others. ~ James E. Faust

What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is 'overruled' already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business. ~ William James

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. ~ James Anthony Froude

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ~ James Stockdale

Fayez was a good scientist and a friend, but his habit of making fun of everything and derailing anything serious for the sake of humor also made him less useful than he should have been. ~ James S.A. Corey