James A. Murphy quote: "When your life feels like you're on a sailboat, with no wind to fill your sails, there are still choices. You can drop anchor and enjoy your surroundings. Start your motor, if you have one. Grab an oar and start paddling, or wait for the wind to fill your sails once again. There are always other choices while crossing the ocean of life…"

Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY

Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just...
JAMES A. MURPHY

It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enj...
JAMES A. MURPHY

If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are the...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow l...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It hel...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the ...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all g...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your lif...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy a...
JAMES A. MURPHY

As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end resu...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was som...
JAMES A. MURPHY

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and ot...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Wil...
JAMES A. MURPHY

If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If th...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happ...
JAMES A. MURPHY

There is no such thing as the perfect relationship. You can however, create a relationship which is ...
JAMES A. MURPHY

No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a chall...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Do you feel trapped by the limitations in your life? Remember, you hold the key to the freedom you s...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Have you ever noticed how we often live on the surface of our lives? Each day is like the previous d...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and th...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authentic...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….
JAMES A. MURPHY

Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we...
JAMES A. MURPHY

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persis...
JAMES A. MURPHY

What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, ...
JAMES A. MURPHY

No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who ...
JAMES A. MURPHY

All you need in life is to know thyself; to live with the knowledge that it’s just life and that's...
JAMES A. MURPHY

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you d...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpos...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Just jump, make that call, take the next step and say NO, I'm done, that's it! As long as you entert...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Their mission is to work closely with clients and end users to develop unique and innovative solutio...
JAMES MURPHY

UMR makes efforts to gather regular input on satisfaction but that is not as comprehensive of an exe...
JAMES MURPHY

Past food service bid processes have lasted between nine and 12 months. During this process, a consi...
JAMES MURPHY

It is also important that we offer as good of value in our services as is practical. That is the und...
JAMES MURPHY

We're just in shock and disbelief. This is a heavy (situation) ... It's stunning. (The allegations) ...
JAMES MURPHY

We knew who the individual was. We knew the type of vehicle he was driving. He went by the location ...
JAMES MURPHY

It's been sealed for four months. It should become public record at this time.
JAMES MURPHY

but I'm still not totally satisfied.
JAMES MURPHY

I make dance music, or disco, ... And dance music isn't really about anything. I can tell if it's wo...
JAMES MURPHY

I don't want to say things are taken out of context, but certain instances are clearly under a micro...
JAMES MURPHY

I don't want to do anything that would endanger their lives. We haven't slept yet, but yes, we are f...
JAMES MURPHY

We believe that the warrant itself was unconstitutional.
JAMES MURPHY

There's always two sides to every story. We'll be telling our side soon.
JAMES MURPHY

This is a lot of strain for the neighborhood. We'll see how Buffett goes and go from there.
JAMES MURPHY

I'm amazed it hasn't gone up more than that, ... It's not just babysitting. It's keeping them active...
JAMES MURPHY

I make dance music, or disco, ... And dance music isn't really about anything. I can tell if it's wo...
JAMES MURPHY

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain ...
JAMES A. FORBES

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should ...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
A. JAMES CLARK

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep...
A. JAMES CLARK

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and sho...
A. JAMES CLARK

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of...
A. JAMES CLARK

My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. JAMES CLARK

It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
A. JAMES CLARK

The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work...
A. JAMES CLARK

When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
A. JAMES CLARK

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. JAMES CLARK

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bomb...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
JAMES A. WORSHAM

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb...
JAMES A. MICHENER

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

«И из нее сделали пример, на который мужчины будут ссыл...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
JAMES A. MICHENER

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
JAMES A. MICHENER

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Human improvement is from within outward.
JAMES A. FROUDE

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
JAMES A. MICHENER

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
JAMES A. FROUDE

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES A. FROUDE

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw...
JAMES A. FROUDE

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES A. FROUDE

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
JAMES A. FROUDE

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...
JAMES A. FROUDE

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
JAMES A. MICHENER

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
JAMES A. MICHENER

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES A. FROUDE

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter...
JAMES A. FORUDE

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yours...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice c...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their So...
JAMES A. LEACH

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than tha...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusias...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immu...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU

When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives ...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started maki...
JAMES A. MOORE

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES

Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES A. FROUDE

Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and ...
JAMES A. FORBES

Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great h...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

By assuming control of Platinum before the expiration of the required waiting period while the Justi...
CHARLES A. JAMES

And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons ...
JAMES A. MICHENER

This conduct prematurely reduced competition between the companies. Merging parties must strictly ad...
CHARLES A. JAMES

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
JAMES A. MICHENER

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li...
JAMES A. MOORE

If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookou...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Ham...
JAMES A. MICHENER

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
JAMES A. MICHENER

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