Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Calmness and confidence are the source of energy brings with itself unlimited opportunities. Let us but ring out the old, ring in the new.
Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
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.
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez) and Nomar (Garciaparra)
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.
