Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
I don't think an actor needs to necessarily go through his things to do his job. I think it's way more important… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
“Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations -… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever done a character like this before, so I couldn't really draw from previous roles. I've been known… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
“Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image