Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? .
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.
It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.
