War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“There is no endowment in man or woman, that is not tallied in you. There is no virtue, no beauty in man… — Brandi Leigh Hall Copy Share Image
One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Never put yourself in the position of regretting what you did or did not try to do. Every experience whether it is… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor,… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't.… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The passions, moreover, become good in those who are spiritually earnest once they have wisely separated them from corporeal objects and used… — John Behr Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Through the history of my records, from when I started controlling the visual, I always used lower case letters for everything, I… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
“Let's think about living some day in a world made of friendship, with hearts beating with duty and feeling, and people and… — Sait Faik Abasıyanık Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of… — Asvaghosa Copy Share Image
“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
I believe that things kind of happen for a reason. But at the same time my real mission is just to continue… — Julian McMahon Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as… — Stephen Dillane Copy Share Image