I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society – the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness – has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.
Stripping away artifice – it’s the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life – but there’s nothing bigger than life.
I don’t understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it’s a mystery.
Style and entertainment tastes change, but the core emotions of being a kid – which, not coincidentally, are the core foundations of any good story – are constant.
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Rugby is a game that’s constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, ‘I am not going to think today; I am too tired’? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn’t understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you’d think, ‘Why would anybody want to do that?’ But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.
There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what we may have achieved or not achieved. We’re under constant surveillance.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That’s always good; that’s a constant.
Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it’s just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.
In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.
I always feel like the hammer’s going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.
A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you’re at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me – whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.
Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.
When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent oneself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead in times of rapid change and rid ourselves of stickiness in any form in the business.
I love my fans in Pakistan for being so kind and letting me be myself. Along this journey of exploring myself and a new world out here, I’m always going to make them proud, too. They’re my constant support system.
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.
I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.
Our ideals are under the constant threat of extremism, whether in the form of radical Muslim groups or the emergence of other elements seeking to deny the rights and freedoms of others.
I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I’d go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.
We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
I think that’s it’s really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it’s nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
As a star-son it’s a constant struggle to move away from being known as Vinod Khanna’s son and create my own space.
Moneyball’ doesn’t have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It’s a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn’t readily apparent.
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I’ve already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It’s given me the constant drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.
In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?
Fitness is very important to me because it helps give me a routine when I travel. It gives me one hour of ‘me’ time and passes the time when I’m lonely. Living with scoliosis serves as a constant reminder to keep my core and back strong. If I get lazy, I feel it in my back first.
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it’s unstable all around you.
Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one’s own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one’s children.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
I’m totally an anxious mess all the time. There’s a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it’s just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I’m not doing good enough.
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I’d give up after a few minutes. I’d find other things to do: Anything but writing.
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
