Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.
What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm already motivated. It just can't happen. Me being motivated was never a factor. Never.
When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
There is no better high than discovery.
I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy.
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
