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Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.
Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.
God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.
As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.
All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.
Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.
We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.