L.A. Paul Quotes

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

There is no model, there is only color.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Goals dictate how matches go.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

Good economics is good politics.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

I was unlucky, like my country.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.