Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.
God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.
Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer. . . and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.
I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim. . . but no longer!
The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
I was a National-Socialist and I remain one. . . The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience. '
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.
We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.