Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of morality and politics does not necessarily make for...
The crux of my argument is this—we cannot truly understand what we should put on, say, or do, without looking at our behavior in relationship to Christ. In Christ, decency in behavior and dress is far larger than the particulars of modesty. By the ...
In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.’ Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet, and music are incredibly significan...
Engineer: If they were to give me two more excavators, I'd be a year ahead of the plan by now. Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: You're an impatient generation. Engineer: Weren't you? Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, we were, very. Oh, don't be so impatient, Comrade E...
Jack Ryan: Well... Ramius trained most of their Officer Corps, which would put him in a position to select men willing to help him. And he's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman. He has no children, n...
[Henry has gathered the family into Royal's room] Henry Sherman: Pagoda has something to say. Pagoda: [points at Royal] He has a cancer. Henry Sherman: No, he doesn't. I know what stomach cancer looks like. I've seen it. And you don't eat three chees...
Xerxes: But I am a generous god. I can make you rich beyond all measure. I will make you warlord of all Greece. You will carry my battle standard to the heart of Europa. Your Athenian rivals will kneel at your feet if you will but kneel at mine. King...
In her only departure from her prepared text, Heckler added, “We must conquer AIDS before it affects the heterosexual population and the general population…. We have a very strong public interest in stopping AIDS before it spreads outside the ris...
Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we see the essential responsibility God has given wom...
Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.
Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.
If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.
I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
