R.J. Lawrence Quotes

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

You are what you inhabit.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.