Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
