Henry James Quotes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Henry James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916

Topics

LifeBeautyArtProcessKnowForce

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Matthew Scully

LifeFaithBrokenPeopleViewKind

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Anna C. Brackett

YouInformationSeekCannotMake

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

Jeff Baena

TimeWritingReadingHeActually

I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things.

Michael Corbat

MyselfOutThingsSomebodyWho

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

Amor Towles

HistoryTimeManThinkPresent

One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

PeopleOpportunitiesGoalValley

It's an honor to be able to get in the fray and be a strong, mature voice for Coloradans, a voice uncensored and uncontrolled by the permanent political class in Washington.

Robert Blaha

VoiceStrongHonorPoliticalMature

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Michael Shannon

FunComedyPlaySuspenseHereGet

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Mohsin Hamid

TimeCulturePoliticsCreativeDone

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

Jay Weatherill

WomanGraceStrongPersonYoungShe

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Dorothy Dunnett

LifeGameDesignYouKnowChess

After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.

Brandon Webb

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