The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose; it's the hazardous detour.
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.
I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.
