Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which...

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody...

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done...

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that’s because I appreciate my sense of humor.

To change what you see, you have to change the “maps” you use to make sense of the world. You can call these maps whatever you want. We call them mental models…

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to...

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was...

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose – that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it’s just not something I want...

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It’s important to have a sense of what’s going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is...

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the...

‘Billy Elliot’ prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the ’60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways...

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make...

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them,...

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as ‘The Slap’ has, that’s great. The sense I get is that it’s not about me...

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

It’s common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond...

I don’t really know what ‘American’ is. I know what Ukrainian is. We’re happy Slavic people. We’re not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There’s this sense of ‘pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best...

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That’s what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like...

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

You don’t have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory –...

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more...

The quiet sense of something lost

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Bombino’s a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he’s definitely the Grand Poobah. I don’t think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he...

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can...

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I’m creating a form of...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and...

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal… has always been the work of other actors.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven’t sensed that possibility you don’t get started in the same way, you don’t feel you can have an impact.

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of...

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There’s...

An important reason Google is usually listed among the world’s most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people’s attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter...

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.