Christian Quotes
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.
'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.
You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.
For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.
Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.
I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played. They're all really far from who I am.
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.