I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.
A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I'm used to my hearing in the same way that I'm used to the size of my hands.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.
t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.