“The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.” LooksAmericaLife IsHumanityNationsCan DoDestinyShareCitizensFellowsSacredUnionsForgottenSoldierBurdenShouldersObligationReliefRemoveNeglectedPathwaysDescendantsConfederateMagnanimity Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” PeopleLifeLooksPhilosophyInspirationCan DoChangeDestinyFateCrossesClaimsAliensFree WillPredestinationPredestinedAbility To AdaptComputer Viruses Book:Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.” HumansLooksKindUseCan DoWealthAttitudeQualityGenerationsConditionsGeniusDisciplineEnvironmentalSustainabilityPreparing Book:A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural Source: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
“I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.” WorldLooksSeemsFilmForceCan DoInterestingTeachSensesNarrativeTraits Author:Rick Alverson
“I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.” IfsMenWorldWantLooksCan DoAcceptingSolutionsDirtyDirty Work Author:Charles Bukowski
“If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksKindHardEnoughWholeCan DoWorstWittyDesperateHatsJust BeingWorst ThingsShockingTrying Too Hard Author:John Waters
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.” IfsMenLooksCan DoSituationExampleHe ManRevolutionCreatingSlaverySlaveSeedsGreek Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I think you just look for the person you have the most fun with. And that's enough. You realize, "Wait, I can just keep having fun with her forever?" Yes, you can do that. That is the key.” ThinkingLooksPersonsI CanEnoughFunWaitingCan DoRealizingForeverKeysHaving FunYes You Can Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.” WantYearsLooksLightMotivationCan DoFieldsCircumstancesConvinced Author:Zig Ziglar
“As you go higher up in the ladder, you look down, and it's a pretty far fall, so you tend to watch your step a bit more. That's all you can do. It's a full time job not to kill these niggas out here; every day I ask for the strength not to go off the handle and whack one of these stupid cunts.” LooksJobsFallAsksBitsCan DoStepsWatchesStupidHigherDown AndHandleYou Can Do ItLaddersFull Time Jobs Author:Gunplay
“There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.” IfsLooksGuyCan DoSceneHappeningsDinnerOvensFamily DinnerCasserolesWrong GuySpatulas Author:Rob Lowe
“I don't love exercise. Some of it is more fun than others, so what I do is, if I'm on the treadmill and I don't want to finish, I look at it and say, "Okay, this is 20 minutes, versus the rest of my life. I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing so many other things, so I can do this for 20 minutes."” IfsWantLooksI CanFunCan DoMinutesExerciseOkayVersusTreadmillsI Can Do This Author:Anne Hathaway
“Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'” KnowsWellsLooksCan DoAudienceHellPrayingSceneUncomfortableFakeStripping Author:Anna Friel
“When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.” KnowsFeelsLooksI CanImportantStoriesSeemsFatherCan DoKnow HowPityTorn Author:Paul Auster
“I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a matter of willpower. The world is just how you see it. If you want to have other people tell you how to see it, then you can. But if you want to look at it differently, then it's limitless what you can do. That's why I don't feel the need to be one person. I can be as many people as I like.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldWantNeedsFeelsLooksPersonsI CanMatterStarsCan DoRealizingVisionBecomingMen And WomenEvery ManWillpowerLimitless Author:Marilyn Manson
“I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.” FeelsLooksStillsI CanEnoughMovingSongBlackCan DoWhiteAliveFieldsPagesStructureSoldierAgendasBlack And WhiteAvant Garde Author:Scott Walker
“The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."” WantLooksEarthCultureCan DoBusinessEffectsProductsHeyStatus QuoFeedbackLoops Author:Ray Anderson
“But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.” NeedsLooksSometimesJobsCan DoActingHealthyDegreesRidiculousAwakeFreshness Author:Eric Bana