L.A. Paul Quotes

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

In my soul, I am free.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.