A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!
Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.
Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.
Labour is. . . not the only source of material wealth, i. e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.
I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.
Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life. . . but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off. . . . They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.
A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.
We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.
Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.
Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.
Don’t be one of those souls who says, ‘If only I had my life to live over. ’ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.