R.E. Butler Quotes

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

True love knows no league.

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

My love is inside me where my fat was.

I always want to sleep on the third date.

You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

The first thought is often the best.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.