Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
[first lines] title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant
Mary Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
The Stranger: I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.
I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.
You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.
Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.
