In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.
I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.
I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!. . . I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!
To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think. . . I think. . . maybe. . . it's both happening at the same time.
Being funny is not the same as being happy.
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.