Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
Cities must be fun.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.
Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
