L.A. Paul Quotes

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.