Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. - The Vision of Sin
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well.
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.