R.J. Newman Quotes

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

When I finally realized that I didn't want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up before my eyes.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'

Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Time hath a taming hand.

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.