R.J. Lawrence Quotes

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

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.

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.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

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

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

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.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.