You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I’ve been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us – that a man’s enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.
Life’s all about choices. Everyone’s destination is the same; only the paths are different.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone’s laughing at the same thing, it’s a really great experience.
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, ‘Oh, man!’ I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply – yet everyone looks at you differently.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
When you’re surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that’s reality.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that ‘Guitar Hero’ is the same as a real guitar.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I’ve worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other’s micro-expressions.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week’s. Different books same reviews.
The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you’re the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you’re so headstrong about it as a fact.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He’s very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he’s been very successful.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there’s a skeleton under my skin just like yours.
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you’re putting out negativity, then you’re going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
