Henry James Quotes

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NothingVeniceThingsThoughSome

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

John Burns

MenProgressSlowJudgeWearSure

When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

FatherPeopleTalkingRememberLook

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Matthew Desmond

NaturePovertyLookTraumaHard

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell.

Anita Sarkeesian

PowerMovingStartGamesNeedTell

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Steven Soderbergh

EducationPovertyCountryThreeTalk

I've never been the guy who tried to line up three or four projects down the road. I like to find one piece that speaks to me and then pour my heart and soul into it. Then I come home, recoup, and relax.

Chris Cooper

HomeHeartSoulMeRelaxRoad

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Christian Dior

BeautySecretWithoutZest

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

MyselfMistakesForwardYouHigh

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Peter Bergen

GoodTimeDeathProblemsThinkBad

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

Mark Goulston

TrustWinWinningWorldYouLose

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

GreatCreativeSympathyPresentWill

I've fallen for straight men, I've fallen for gay men, I've fallen for straight women and gay women. I really have. I had crushes on really every single kind of person in the world.

Lynn Shelton

WomenMenWorldGayPersonKind

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