M.K. Alexander Quotes
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.
There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism
Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.
I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts.
The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
The older Mercedes is absolutely beautiful. It's got that lovely purring feeling as the engine ticks over, which you just don't get in a modern car.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.
Efforts following 9/11 were important. They set a tone. They reminded those who might be tempted to take out their anger on an entire community that such actions were wrong.