The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this. . .
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.
Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.
I know who I am and what I do.