Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
