If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
I started directing on 'The Wire.'
What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?
In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.
Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.
Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was ab...
A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the g...
In my mind, past, present and future became a blur as I stood in the middle of the celestial room, in the middle of forever. It was as if I were to take a rope that went on forever in both directions and cut it anywhere then the cut would always be e...
Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To such a one, God i...
Marlin: [exasperated] Would somebody please just give me directions? [School of fish take shape of clown fish with sour expression] School of Fish: [mockingly] Would somebody please just give me directions? Marlin: I'm serious! School of Fish: Blah-b...
It appears, according to the reported facts, that the electric conflict is not restricted to the conducting wire, but that it has a rather extended sphere of activity around it .. the nature of the circular action is such that movements that it produ...
I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
It’s not about getting something; it’s about getting the right thing.
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.
