The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
I'm a hopeless pray-er. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - its not pleasant, its painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.
I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal. ) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.
you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.