R.J. Lawrence Quotes

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.

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

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.