Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me.
I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection?
I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
