National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.
There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.