| James L. Buckley |  Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
James L. Buckley |
| James Lipton | I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
James Lipton |
| James M. Baldwin | Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
James M. Baldwin |
| James M. Baldwin | The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
James M. Baldwin |
| James M. Cain | I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
James M. Cain |
| James Madison | As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison |
| James Madison | If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
James Madison |
| James Madison | To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison |
| James Madison | War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison |
| James Randolph Adams | Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
James Randolph Adams |
| James Russell Lowell | An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell |
| James Thurber | The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber |
| James Thurber | The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber |
| Jan Hammer | The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
Jan Hammer |
| Jane Austen | Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen |
| Jane Byrne | If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.
Jane Byrne |
| Jane Byrne | The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
Jane Byrne |
| Jane D. Hull | We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.
Jane D. Hull |
| Jared Diamond | Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Jared Diamond |
| Jared Diamond | We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
Jared Diamond |
