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My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher Hitchens
Life
,
Time
,
Dead
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle
Opinion
,
Starting
,
Minority
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
,
Individual
,
Behavior
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
Old
,
Behind
,
Fools
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Deepak Chopra
Death
,
Thinking
,
Old
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
May
,
Wait
,
Secret
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
Different
,
Year
,
Emotions
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
George Orwell
Idea
,
False
,
Teeth
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
Work
,
Future
,
Society
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
Hugo Chavez
Hell
,
Poor
,
Year
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
Year
,
Tiger
,
Devours
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot
Business
,
Poetry
,
Feelings
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
e. e. cummings
Body
,
Quite
,
Muscles
It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
Time
,
Sad
,
Rather
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead
Food
,
Country
,
Find
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
Phyllis Diller
Time
,
Three
,
Argument
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
Religion
,
Government
,
Past
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan
Old
,
Year
,
Until
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Marilu Henner
Knowledge
,
Between
,
American
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
George Washington Carver
Mind
,
Creative
,
Possible
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Time
,
Long
,
Lose
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
Night
,
Road
,
Dying
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot
Life
,
Beginning
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fear
,
Word
,
Step
New roads; new ruts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Roads
,
Ruts
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
Society
,
Gospel
,
Adultery
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
Struggle
,
Serenity
,
Against
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney
Giving
,
America
,
Place
Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
Paul Ryan
Him
,
Before
,
Serious
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Understand
,
Why
,
Old
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