There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think in television you have an ever-closer bond to the audience because they're inviting you into your living rooms and their… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani… — Jackie Shroff Copy Share Image
“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Being a director it's mean - digging deep in yourself as well. I think the deeper I understood the material and the… — Denise Di Novi Copy Share Image
“Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can’t make the sun rise at midnight,… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
My strategy to show caricature idea of American youth culture, which I think worked after talking about it for so many years,… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I put on 15 kg for my role as an amateur wrestler in the first half of the Marathi film Natrang.' Then,… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then… — Masahiro Sakurai Copy Share Image
In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for… — Neil Clark Warren Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
“Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
“A person of good character is he who is modest, says little, causes little trouble, speaks the truth, seeks the good, worships… — Abu Hamed Muhammad al-Ghazzali Copy Share Image
I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image