"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

James, P. D. · Effort · 4 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12084">God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/effort/">Effort</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch."

James, P. D. · Literature · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24127">Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/literature/">Literature</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27986">A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/nature/">Nature</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35194">There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/science_and_scientists/">Science and Scientists</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?"

James, P. D. · Sex · 1 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36103">I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?.</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/sex/">Sex</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false."

James, P. D. · Charm · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6166">No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3767">James, P. D.</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/charm/">Charm</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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