Top 37 Quotes About Novelties
#1. The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
George Bernard Shaw
#2. Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#3. New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.
Alphonsus Liguori
#4. For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
Thomas Huxley
#5. Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, and in what manner are up to him. The name of Jesus, the power of his blood, and the prayer of faith have never lost their power over the centuries.
Jim Cymbala
#6. An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.
Skrillex
#8. A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
T. S. Eliot
#9. Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!
Eusebius
#11. I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
Clarice Lispector
#12. The republic was no longer a novelty, and here people only appreciate novelties.
Jose Saramago
#13. Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.
Washington Irving
#14. We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
Mark Twain
#15. Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
#16. Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
#17. It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.
Francois Jacob
#18. History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
Wallace Stegner
#19. Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Thomas Kuhn
#21. And if novelties are to be shunned, believe me, the most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rending us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties, and promote our happiness.
James Madison
#22. Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.
Garry Kasparov
#23. We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
Ambrose
#24. Which is better - to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill? ... law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
#25. I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
Nellie Bly
#26. My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
Billy Collins
#27. See here, son, I am not a pessimistic man. I am just plain optimistic that the worst will prevail. That there is Sam's law, son." John
S.E. Swapp
#28. Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.
Pamela Cummins
#29. I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
Britt Daniel
#30. Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Algernon Sidney
#32. We must endure to the end; ... We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#33. There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
Oscar De La Renta
#34. Jealousy is a terrible thing. "It doth mock the meat it feeds upon" is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.
Arthur C. Clarke
#35. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.
Stephen Richards
#36. It does not matter where I am.
The sky is always mine.
Windows, ideas, air, love,
earth, all mine.
Why does it matter if sometimes,
the mushrooms of nostalgia grow?
Sohrab Sepehri
#37. The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
