'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place.
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
It has always been the case that people on out-of-work benefits have to apply for more or less any job they can reasonably be expected to take. But the operative word there is 'reasonable,' because a job that's appropriate for a single, able bodied 22-year-old man may very well not be appropriate for a single mum who can't afford childcare.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
A man is only as faithful as his options.
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
