God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies
The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
The jealousy I feel twards Orlando Bloom exists on many levels.
I was 'attitude' in this place before it was a catchphrase!
That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.