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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
Don't let... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.
They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.