#resent

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#around #beauty #each #exists #got

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. ↗

— Lord Byron

#body #born #god #god help #good

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#glad #i #i can #myself #polished

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it. ↗

— David Zucker

#audience #feels #get #guy #how

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #course #does #each #genesis

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#absolute truth #confuse #describe #itself #like

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#being #girl #i #partly #perceived

One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#example #exemplar #life #model #representative

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #author #come #easily #great