War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
Real power. . . comes not from hate, but from truth.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown. ' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
Living men are bound by time. . . Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.