It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
So it’s all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it’s wrong if I’m not ready to settle for less?
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.
The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.
She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.
So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.
What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.
