L.A. Paul Quotes

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Normal

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Universe

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Feel
  • Scared
  • Empowered

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Thought

• I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Music

• I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Family

• Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.

  

  V. Raymond Edman
  • God
  • Earth
  • Joy

• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Art
  • Energy

• Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Father
  • Poor
  • Prophet

• There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven