James Joll Quotes

#1. It's impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle's world.

Gordon Dahlquist

#2. Our greatest enemies are always our own doubts and fears. But there are no limits to what you can do, be, or have except for the limits you place on yourself.

Brian Tracy

#3. We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

Mohamed El-Erian

#4. The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.

Gabriel Byrne

#5. There aren't twelve types of people in the universe--there are two... The ones that stand still and try to fit in... and the ones that go seek out where they belong.

Romina Russell

#6. Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

Edwin Lefevre

#7. The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

James Joll

#8. Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Marlene Dietrich

#9. Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

M. J. Hyland

#10. I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

Shailene Woodley

#11. When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Edvard Munch

#12. There is a big park in the middle of the locality. Surrounded by at least 50 houses. That those residents got to live in such a locale is their karma. Do they ever come to the park? To walk, jog, run, play ? That is free will.

Andy Paula

#13. A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Joey Lauren Adams

#14. My appetite comes to me while eating.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

James Joll

#16. Chlorophyll drops.

Peter Palmieri

#17. The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.

James Joll