Top 100 James The First Quotes
#1. In the book of James the first chapter and the fourth verse it talks about letting patience have her perfect work in us. God knows how to make us wait to develop patience in us. Sometimes, the wait can seem unbearable. But it is in this place that He is maturing this fruit of the Spirit.
L. J. Boulding
#2. It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
#3. Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly
James Leal
#4. In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James Henry Breasted
#5. I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.
James Tipton
#6. [T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.
James Grant
#7. I didn't know what was going on, didn't understand a bit of it, didn't like any of it. Maybe that's why the first thing I packed was my guns. If your brain won't work, wave a gun around. Sometimes that helps.
James Crumley
#8. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
James Dyson
#9. You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak. Miller
James S.A. Corey
#10. Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.
Luke Wilson
#12. First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
P.D. James
#13. Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.
James S.A. Corey
#14. James Croll, the Scottish janitor and self-taught polymath whose theories concerning Earth's orbit provided the first plausible explanation for how ice ages might have started.
Bill Bryson
#15. For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie
#16. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
James Russell Lowell
#17. The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders
James M. Kouzes
#18. British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get.
Theo James
#19. The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
James Gould Cozzens
#20. A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
Charles James
#21. We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
James Stephens
#22. Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
James A. Moore
#23. Kate was reading through a long diary entry about the first time Katherine
and Matthew had met. Katherine had apparently fallen deeply in lust on the very spot. The entry used the words "delectable,""buttocks," and "I want to bite them.
Lauren James
#24. When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
James M. Barrie
#25. If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
James D. Watson
#26. Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
Jim Cooper
#27. Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966 - A fire that destroyed the city's oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild slave narrative that highlights a little-known era of American history. The First United
James McBride
#28. Now, for the first time, I began to be aware of my heart, the heart itself: and with this awareness, conscious terror came. I realized that I knew nothing whatever about the way we are put together; and I realized that what I did not know might be in the process of killing me.
James Baldwin
#29. My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.
James Salter
#30. Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
Tom Hiddleston
#31. A dirty and mean sense of humor first thing in the morning. I may learn to like you yet.
Lorelei James
#32. Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
James Russell Lowell
#33. You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
#34. The First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one's life, the feeling that some other process is operating.
James Redfield
#35. I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.
Eloisa James
#36. Forgetting about you was the worst part." At first, Thomas thought it was another message in his head; he squeezed his fists against his ears.
James Dashner
#37. We hid the Maps, Thomas." At first it didn't compute. "Huh?
James Dashner
#38. A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?
James Russell Lowell
#40. The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.
James Durbin
#41. Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.
Susan Cooper
#42. (This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.)
William Goldman
#43. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then.
James Herriot
#44. The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
William James
#45. Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
James David Barber
#46. In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.
James Spithill
#47. My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
James Iha
#48. John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.
James Baldwin
#50. You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
James E. Rogers
#51. Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.
James Moloney
#52. The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
James Howard Kunstler
#53. The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
James C. Collins
#54. What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
James Joyce
#55. But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.
LeBron James
#56. And yet the enemy is the one who set up the circumstances to make you believe that in the first place. First he gets us to make a vow, then beats us up when we continue to agree.
James L. Rubart
#57. This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.
James Freeman Clarke
#58. If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.
James Alexander Thom
#59. Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
James Redfield
#60. Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.
James Renner
#61. In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature ...
James Bryce
#62. My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.
James Thayer
#63. Imagine waking from a twenty-five-year sleep, and the first faces you saw were Sil and Lord Weirdo. Aunty Terpy's sanity would run gibbering back to whatever cracked little corner of her skull it had been occupying all these years.
Vic James
#64. I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.
Sid Bernstein
#65. But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.
James Dashner
#66. Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
James Salter
#67. This would be a perfect day if Ray were here with us, but he's not far away. He's doing well, and I know he'd like to enjoy yourself, Ana. To all of you, thank you for coming to share my beautiful wife's birthday, the first of many to come. Happy birthday, my love. - Christian Grey
E.L. James
#68. Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
Jesse James Garrett
#69. James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Brian Austin Green
#70. First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
James Clavell
#71. Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.
James Madison
#72. The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
Lily James
#73. I like the backup plan better," Amos said. "Backup plan?" Prax asked. "The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are." Prax
James S.A. Corey
#74. Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
Philip Selway
#75. Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
James Hudson Taylor
#76. Protogen is in a position to take sole possession of not only the first technology of genuinely extraterrestrial origin, but also a prefabricated mechanism for the manipulation of living systems and the first clues as to the nature of the larger - I will call it galactic - biosphere.
James S.A. Corey
#77. The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional.
Peter James West
#78. Dr. Cross, please come! Please! Dr. Cross the loud shouts continued. I didn't recognize the woman's voice, but privacy doesn't seem to count when your first name is Doctor.
James Patterson
#79. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
James Russell Lowell
#80. Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.
James MacDonald
#81. The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
C.L.R. James
#82. The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.
James Richardson
#83. James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
Leslie Caron
#84. Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
James Buchan
#85. My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.
Cynthia Ozick
#86. And I remember when she first fell into my office how ordinary I thought she looked. She is anything but ordinary. With a little makeup and the right clothes, she's a goddess.
E.L. James
#87. Politicians would be well advised not to hold their breath for youth to engage in politics any time soon. Today's youth are the first generation to have realized for real change to occur, it must happen on an individual level rather than at an administrative level.
James Morcan
#88. We are first worshipers. We should be able to go into any atmosphere where there is worship, and throw off whatever sound or style we are accustomed to and worship the Creator of all things. We deny ourselves-- we are not the center... He is. Is He not worthy?
James Vincent
#89. Afterward he collapsed onto the deck and gave in to the shakes. Naomi climbed into her couch and sobbed. It was the first time Holden had ever seen her cry.
James S.A. Corey
#90. Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
James W. Loewen
#91. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
James Russell Lowell
#92. - Lilith. Named you meself. Did you know Adam had a first wife before Eve? Called her Lilith, but the bitch was too headstrong so got rid of her, he did. Headstrong, another word for uppity.
Marlon James
#93. The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
James Lankford
#94. When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
LeBron James
#95. Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.
James Purdy
#96. Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.
James Madison
#97. It's a baby plane," Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. "It's going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.
James Patterson
#98. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
James Thurber
#99. I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.
William James
#100. The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition
it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind
yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
William James
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