Novelty Without Virtue Quotes & Sayings

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go. — Madonna Ciccone

The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another. — Frederick Lenz

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room. — Christie Brinkley

Perhaps the best argument ... that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas ... being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory. — Christopher Isham

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. — Barbara Kingsolver

a flash of silver just below the surface. — Paul Kemprecos

It must be awful to feel you're not needed. — Anne Frank

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts. — Jason Clarke

I'm still very much a kid inside myself. — Prince Harry

Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance - the avoidance of legitimate suffering - is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness. — Marianne Williamson

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. — John Piper

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. — Daniel Quinn

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the
Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it. — Horatio Nelson

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes. — Brigham Young

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. — Catherine Deneuve

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. — Tom Stoppard

In one lifetime it wouldn't be possible to find another woman with whom he can learn to be so free, whom he can please with such abandon and expertise. By some accident of character, it's familiarity that excites him more than sexual novelty. He supects there's something numbed or deficient or timid in himself ( ... ) [M]ight look like virtue or doggedness, but it's neither of these because he exercises no real choice. This is what he has to have: possession, belonging, repetition. — Ian McEwan