Top 100 Quotes About Newness: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Newness

#1. The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. In Christ, there is newness of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

Theodore Levitt

#5. The resurrection power of Jesus secured for us a newness of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

Fred Astaire

#7. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

Carew Papritz

#8. When you have grown old, newness always comes from the inside.

Marie De Hennezel

#9. The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#10. In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#11. The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#12. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

T.D. Jakes

#13. Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Gaston Bachelard

#14. She turned towards me, put her fingertips against my chest. She was enjoying it somewhat, too, the little betrayal of Mark's memory. She still loved him, differently; now and again there must be these retrospective cruelties, to consolidate her newness, to let her not love him in the old way.

Glen Duncan

#15. And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

Sarah Williams

#16. Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

Annette Thomas

#17. It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Seneca The Younger

#18. We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy's power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

David Wilkerson

#19. Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

Colm Toibin

#20. The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

William Ralph Inge

#21. I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

Frederick Lenz

#22. There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

Felicity Jones

#23. Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.

Mark Twain

#24. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

Dan Buettner

#25. A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Charles Baudelaire

#26. I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Carl Honore

#27. When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

Alfred Austin

#28. I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

Andrew Bird

#29. What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Brian Ferneyhough

#30. Newness of life: repent heart, humble soul

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

David Mitchell

#32. Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.

Kurt Eichenwald

#33. There was no peace in continuing to do what had already proven unworkable. Sometimes tradition itself disrupted peace, and only newness could smooth the way.

N.K. Jemisin

#34. Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Heinrich Heine

#35. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

#36. I want to remember ... Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day.

Carew Papritz

#37. My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

Katharine Graham

#38. To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Octavio Paz

#39. Brothers and sisters, let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives! Are we often weary, disheartened, and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won't be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.

Pope Francis

#40. I am delivered from the law. I serve God in the newness of the spirit.

Imogen Garner

#41. Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

James Russell Lowell

#42. How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience".

BigDaddy Abel

#43. If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

Tanith Lee

#44. The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.

David Levithan

#45. They had learned the language of each other's ardor, and yet each time Ilyas found himself marvelling at the newness of this
this coupling without restriction, this open, carnal honesty.

Astrid Amara

#46. As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

Ernest Holmes

#47. Don't be afraid to get wet, you see, for what comes from rain but newness and growth and blooms?

Erica Alex

#48. But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Agnes Smedley

#49. To say "It's no use" is to say the Potter is not qualified to do what He does best. Take your chances on God. Put your life in His hands. Newness doesn't come from faith in yourself. It comes from faith in Him.

Beth Moore

#50. Failure is built into creativity ... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Saul Bass

#51. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

Max McKeown

#52. My woodland lair was beautiful: a clearing that was green with life. It smelt of summer and rain and newness. It was patterned with shifting light and shade, alive with the trill and whistle of flirtatious birdsong. Oh, this was too lovely a day to die, too lovely to kill.

Gillian Philip

#53. Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Hannah Arendt

#54. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

John Updike

#55. Our newness lies only in parts rearranged.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#56. The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

Rajneesh

#57. A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

Louise Wilson

#58. When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.

Frieda Lawrence

#59. Change is not always progress ... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.

Henry Ford

#60. Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Virgil

#61. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

J.D. Brewer

#62. From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Allen Ginsberg

#63. The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Dennis Wilson

#64. It was something I learned then. That you could take the crumpled remains of something destroyed and smooth them into newness. You could pretend certain things weren't happening even if you had seen or felt them. Everything done can be denied.

Nayomi Munaweera

#65. Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

Carl Jung

#66. I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Leslie Jamison

#67. The sign of the new Covenant is humility, hiddenness - the sign of the mustard-seed. The Son of God comes in lowliness. Both these elements belong together: the profound continuity in the history of God's action and the radical newness of the hidden mustard-seed.

Pope Benedict XVI

#68. When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#69. Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Charlaine Harris

#70. Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way
in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

Stephen Levine

#71. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Kim Gordon

#72. What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Richard Llewellyn

#73. To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#74. I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

Daniel Smith

#75. As mentioned earlier, the primary way to create and sustain excitement in a sexual relationship is through honesty. It provides a sense of newness and surprise that can't be matched by any of the standard gimmicks for improving a couple's sex life. NOT

Peggy Vaughan

#76. [T]he need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.

Erich Fromm

#77. We often equate a new beginning or fresh start to moving to a new area, changing jobs, starting a new business or entering a new relationship. While this is true, there is also the possibility that God wants to bring newness to you right where you are.

Jamie Larbi

#78. Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

Tom Ford

#79. True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#80. To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

Eric Hoffer

#81. The right brain is future oriented. It's where our aspirations, our dreams, our longings reside. It's where creativity is born. This is the part of your brain that doesn't care that you haven't done it before - in fact it's energized by newness and bored by routine.

M.J. Ryan

#82. He'd always preferred newness, associating old things with decay and dowdiness.

Lisa Kleypas

#83. Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.

Marianne Williamson

#84. There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Lupita Nyong'o

#85. Usually she loved to learn new words, treating them as exciting possessions that she could employ as she chose-in her journal, in her conversation-relishing the newness and beauty of each one.

Gemma Malley

#86. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Oscar Niemeyer

#87. The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#88. As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

Suzy Menkes

#89. When old friends reconnect, there is a refreshing newness, after great memories wash over you, the stage is set for so many more.

Tom Althouse

#90. The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

Jan Morris

#91. And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new

Billy Joel

#92. I felt that first awareness that there's a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you've never heard - the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.

Carrie Brownstein

#93. Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

Stella Payton