R. A. Butler Quotes

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Be the hero of your own life story.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.