The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The problem is, when you come back in you’re sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it’s not covered in sweat.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we’re desperate not to have on the show.
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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