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  • A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

    Beautiful   Design   May  
  • I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

    Jobs   Military   Boys  
  • We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

    Moving   Catholic   Ego  
    Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.
  • Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

    Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press
  • Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

    Dog   Mean   Men  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

    Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80
  • The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

    Men   Mind   Earth  
    William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240
  • 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.

    Air   Two   Soldier  
  • I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

    Patience   Eye   Garden  
  • Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

    Fashion   Morning   Doors  
    Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam
  • Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

    Discours sur le Style (1753)
  • The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

    Stars   Lying   Moving  
    Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers
  • We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.

  • O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

    Wise   Angel   Men  
    1665 Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888-95.
  • In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

    Mother   Hazards   World  
  • I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

    Media   Quests   Tiny  
    "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.
  • Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

  • As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

    Men   Novelty   Opinion  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books
  • Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

    Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.24, Penguin
  • Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.

    Years   Novelty   Three  
  • Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

  • Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

    Men   Novelty   Lasts  
    Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.112
  • The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

    Couple   Stories   May  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.81, Penguin
  • Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

  • It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

    Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88
  • But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press
  • In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

    Sarcastic   Song   Humor  
  • Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

    Talking   Fads   Novelty  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony
  • Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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