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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.