In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.
There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole a...
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men...
Over the past thirty-five years, untold numbers of gay Christians have turned from God in their "failure" and "inability to please God," who, they were told, could not accept them as a gay person. Some felt so rejected and depressed that they turned ...
And who cares for imagination? Who does not think it a rather dangerous, senseless attribute, akin to weakness, perhaps partaking of frenzy - a disease rather than a gift of the mind? Probably all think it so but those who possess, or fancy they poss...
Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year.
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.
Does your neighbor bore you? Lend him some money.
God knows why he has made the wings of some birds shorter.
He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.
John Cairncross: The boys, we're going to get some lunch. [no response] John Cairncross: Alan? Alan Turing: Yes? John Cairncross: I said we're going to get some lunch. [no response] John Cairncross: Alan? Alan Turing: Yes? John Cairncross: Can you he...
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.
