R.J. Lawrence Quotes

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.

I want a pizza with my face on it.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Few things worth having can be got easily.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

Being inappropriate comes easy to me.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.