It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
I really care more about the human drama than I do the thriller stuff.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.
My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Some people are more terrorist than others.
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
A nightmare would be when somebody is trying to be funnier than everyone else. And you've got a group scene or two-person scene, and one person decides, 'I'm the funny in this,' and bulldozes everyone else, and they make sure they're the reason everyone loves the scene.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Making peace is harder than making war.
We need to engage rather than educate people.
I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.
