Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.
