R.E. Butler Quotes

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

In dreams begins responsibility.

I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in all of them.

It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

It doesn't matter where you come from. It's what you do when you get here.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

That which could hunger, could starve.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.