Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
From its conception and that one and only meeting, 'HITNRUN' took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that's what freedom feels like, 'HITNRUN' is what it sounds like.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
