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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
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Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't… — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
You see, when we talk about perfect trust, we're talking about what gives us roots, character, the stability to handle the hard… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
