What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Spike Lee is openly contemptuous of whites and what he implies to be a white establishment out to get him. Lee's films have grossed in the hundreds of millions. Whites have contributed greatly to this sum, though he seemingly cannot stand them. Hypocritical?
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
He who is contented is rich.
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
My goal is simple - try and make sure my guy doesn't score. And if he does, make sure it's a contested two, or a tough shot.
Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he brought them here. He brought them to Peru and Carabobo, and he worked together with the troops of San Martin to liberate this continent. That is Simon Bolivar.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
