L.A. Paul Quotes

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Death is a master from Germany.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

I am my biggest marital problem

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

Words are loaded pistols.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

Providence must call us and we must follow it, if we are to go forward confidently.

do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.