It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
~By Winona Ryder ~
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.
~By Suzanne Lafollette ~
Love is a serious mental disease.
~By Plato ~
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
~By Robert Morgan ~
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
~By Clive Bell ~
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
~By Alan Dundes ~
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
~By Jung Chang ~
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
~By Grete Waitz ~
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
~By Bill Griffith ~
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
All progress is experimental.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
~By Julius Erving ~
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
~By Ann Landers ~
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
~By Barney Frank ~
I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.
~By Paul Pierce ~
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
~By Emmitt Smith ~
One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
~By Frank Murkowski ~
New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
~By Namie Amuro ~
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.
~By Paul Nurse ~
It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
~By Christo ~
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
~By Billy Martin ~
But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
~By Joe Slovo ~
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
~By Kenny G ~
The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.
~By John M. McHugh ~
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
~By Jacques Delors ~
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
~By Stone Gossard ~
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
~By Montserrat Caballe ~
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.
~By Casey Affleck ~
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
~By Tina Turner ~
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
~By Yogi Berra ~
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
~By George Crumb ~
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
~By David Chalmers ~
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
~By Andy Dick ~
It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
~By Christy Turlington ~
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
~By Abdus Salam ~
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
~By Michael Caine ~
Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.
~By Kid Rock ~
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
~By Dick Fosbury ~
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
~By Robert Frank ~
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
~By Gary L. Francione ~
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
~By James Merrill ~
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
~By Alex Campbell ~
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.
~By Jim Ryun ~
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
~By Ace Frehley ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
~By Bill Bradley ~
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.
~By Martin Sheen ~
The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.
~By John M. McHugh ~
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
~By Carl Jung ~
I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
~By John Abizaid ~
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities.
~By Tom Brady ~
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.
~By Julie Bishop ~
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
~By Charles Wagner ~
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
~By Amos Oz ~
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