R.J. Lawrence Quotes

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted.

We know what we believe and we'll come back and win or not if we sit back.

I think the fact of the matter is this is a tough moment for democrats. But it's also exciting to see so many people out there mobilized.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.