Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

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• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mountains
  • Climb
  • Self-Love

• I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Men
  • Find
  • Doors

• The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • May
  • Difference
  • Presidential

• I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Opinion

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Identity

• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Spirit

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Today
  • Architecture
  • Tomorrow

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday