James Jones Quotes

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

James Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1921 - May 9, 1977

Topics

AnimalWorldYouGoRaceSee

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Jimmy John Liautaud

GovernmentHelpOnlyIntervention

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

Angus Young

HabitNightYouLatePlayEat

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Anita Borg

WomenTeamEngineeringHelpOpinions

It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.

Song Hye-kyo

GoodBestManI AmTiredMoments

I stayed at Morgan Stanley for 27 years because it was fun. I kept learning.

Ruth Porat

LearningFunYearsBecauseMorgan

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

Mary MacLane

LifeTimeSoulBookYearYou

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Mary Oliver

TimeWalkWordsMeStopWrite

People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.

Mildred Dresselhaus

PeopleLongIndustryWhoAcademia

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Lois Wyse

AgeWomanDressGreenRealityYou

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

FamilyMoneyTravelComedyTragedy

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

Jayson Blair

SayRaceHardRolePlayedReally

If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.

DeMar DeRozan

WorkHard WorkYouDeserveHard

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