What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!

I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.

People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

I don't know what fire is made of - hell nobody does. All I know is that fire is awesome. I'm not a pyromaniac, but I am a pyroenthusiast.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

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