No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.
We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.
To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born.
Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.
All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
