Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
we can't even control a blind man's desire to see the world by his own eye,philosophy is to see outside by inside.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins
Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.