Matthew Quotes
Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader.
I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.
It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.
In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.
Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.
One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.
Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.