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The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.
Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)
I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.
When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
I got a postcard from my gynecologist. It said, Did you know it's time for your annual check-up? No, but now my mailman does.
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.