L.A. Paul Quotes

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

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

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

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

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

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.

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.

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.

Goals dictate how matches go.

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

There is no model, there is only color.

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

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

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

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

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

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

Some people find oil. Others don't.

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.

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

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.

In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.