R.J. Lawrence Quotes

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

The family is the pattern of heaven.

The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter.

Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

There are idiots. Look around.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh