This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.
Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.
A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.
My standard for the women in my life is like, 'If no man can treat you better than I can treat you, they can't come.' You gotta step up to the plate. With respect, with acknowledgment, with support.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird!
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
