Constrictions Define Quotes

#1. But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.

Bakari Kitwana

#3. That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

Zhang Ziyi

#4. I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Jonathan Ames

#5. Stories are about endings,' he'd said. 'They don't mean anything unless they come to an end.

Paul Cornell

#6. The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

Walter E. Williams

#7. What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Rob Bell

#8. It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Terry Zwigoff

#9. Life is tons of discipline.

Robert Frost

#10. It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.

Brad Meltzer

#11. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Richard Branson

#12. Theirs is a devotion that is possible only because of their equal disappointments in each other and the knowledge they share that at one time, to the one who mattered, they were each separately enough.

Emily Ruskovich

#13. I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

Christian Bale

#14. Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Beth Henley