R.J. Lawrence Quotes

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

When I was a boy I was my father.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths.

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.