Quotes containing new

Isaac Newton If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. Kahlil Gibran Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Helen Keller No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. John Henry Newman To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. Seneca Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. William Hazlitt If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Sir Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Washington Irving There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. George Bernard Shaw The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. H L Mencken School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency. Andre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Dr Dale E Turner Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. Blaise Pascal Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Mark Twain It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Dr Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. Jack Lemmon If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. Bobby Jones It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of f Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Winston Churchill It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Thomas Jefferson The Advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. Author Unknown Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac. Alfred North Whitehead Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Mark Twain Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds. John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Martin Luther King The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. Logan Pearsall Smith To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. Albert Einstein The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. Albert Einstein The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. Joseph Addison Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ezra Lommis Pound Literature is news that stays news. Henry Ward Beecher I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Robert Newton Anthony The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Thomas Fuller Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Oliver Wendell Holmes Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. Cicero Endless money forms the sinews of war. Alfred Lord Tennyson You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,? Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May. Benjamin Franklin Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. Charles Lamb New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Mark Twain Regarding New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Jay Leno New Year's Eve, where old acquaintances be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.