Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she’s like, ‘I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.’
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
One person’s car is another person’s scenery.
So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there’s never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
People are different from one another. That’s what makes the world good. That’s what makes the world great.
One man’s folly is another man’s wife.
A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it’s just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can’t make you feel good.
A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn’t even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe… I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.
I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it’s just another normal.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you’re constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don’t want to say, ‘Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.’ I don’t want to do it again. I want to do it once. It’s no good, I do another one.
What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.
One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.
You never begin a new life. It’s a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there’s no continuity.
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don’t like to lose, and if I’m told ‘no,’ then I find another way to get my ‘yes.’ But I’m a loyal person.
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
Don’t keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Each language has its own take on the world. That’s why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.
