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I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.
We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings.
I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.
It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.