#cons

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#filmmakers #gifted #i #myself #other

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#catch #constitution #gives #only #people

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #chimneys #constant #easier #ever

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#alter #always #consciousness #easier #elevation

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#clearly #conscience #humanity #justice #own

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#been #character #consider #find #fortunate

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#alternative #anything #conservation #else #energy

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#intimately #level #math #music #necessarily

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien! ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #considered #first #i #jackson

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled