In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important.
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
The sole purpose of the bedroom is to melt away any stressors.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy.
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
If we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture.
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you’ll never get any sleep with a redhead!
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn’t stand out.
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‘inspired,’ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
