When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
