The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Sheeta: [Hitting both Charles and Louis in the head with a coal shovel on the train chase] Take that! Charles: [dazed] That's a strong little girl! Louis: [groaning] Uh-huh...
[first lines] Charles Weston: Say, is this the moving picture ship? Watchman: The Venture? Yeah. Are you going on this crazy voyage? Charles Weston: What's crazy about it?
Ray Charles: If I feel the music, that means it's real. Quincy Jones: No, it ain't. Ray Charles is a sell-out. The blind Liberace, leaving those Rocking Chair roots behind.
[Charles stumbles and grabs his head] Logan: You okay? Charles Xavier: [points at his legs] When this goes... this comes back! [points at his head]
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provide...
Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.
I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
The First Amendment is not without limits.
We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.
Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godh...
[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the 'school' to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way ...
