So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.