Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.
We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
