I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
Somehow [Barak] Obama's is much more disgusting than others, because he is smart and we all "know that he knows". He is thoroughly dishonest and it is clear.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.
Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
My makeup is quite dense, so I have to remove makeup very thoroughly.
The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.
This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.
I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.
Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ? ? ?
Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted.
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
I was in two Duran Duran videos. My kids are thoroughly unimpressed.
The appointment of a special counsel, I think, helps assure people and the Justice Department that they are going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly, which is what we called for all along.
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
It is said that a person who makes other people laugh has a lot of pain in his heart. On the contrary, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a comedian and don't nurse such thoughts.
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Chongryon should do all of its undertakings thoroughly as intended and wished by the great leaders, and usher in a new heyday of the movement of Koreans in Japan true to the General's instructions.
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
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