Danny: I'm not sure what four nines does, but the ace, I think, is pretty high.
Joey: Pa's got things for you to do. And Mother wants you. I know she does!
Dr. John Watson: Holmes! Does your depravity know no bounds? Sherlock Holmes: [nonchalantly] No!
Simin: Does he even realize you are his son? Nader: I know he is my father!
Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.
The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
