was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use th...
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only...
Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themse...
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy,...
You do believe it,' he said. 'You do believe everything. We all believe everything, even when we deny everything. The denyers believe. The unbelievers believe. Don't you feel in your heart that these contradictions do not really contradict: that ther...
Only great men may have great faults.
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Well, do you have anything to say, Banks? George Banks: Well, sir, they do say that when there's nothing to say, all you can say... [He feels Michael's tuppence in his pocket, takes it out and looks at it] Mr. Dawes Sr.: Confound it, B...
Emanuel Schikaneder: [to Mozart] Look, you little clown, do you know how many people I've hired for you? Do you know how many people are waiting? Constanze Mozart: [shouting] Leave him alone! He's doing his best! Emanuel Schikaneder: [to Mozart] I'm ...
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or pat...
If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck; I just keep doing things until it is done.
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.
When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.