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Quotes About Newness

Babies bring the love with them when they come.
~ Tayari Jones
Every Sparks album is a new album when it's the first one you're hearing.
~ Ron Mael
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
~ Brian Ferneyhough
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
~ Tertullian
the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Le nouveau royaume de Jérusalem est un peu la Californie de l'époque, on peut y faire fortune.
~ Umberto Eco
Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.
~ Victor Hugo
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
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
~ L.M. Montgomery
The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?
~ Catherine Hapka
It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new. Sometimes disasters make me feel that way.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
L'animo riposato aver solìa, ed era nuovo che fosse dolore: e or me n'ha così fornito Amore!
~ Cecco Angiolieri
Passions, deaths, storms, etc., give us great pleasure in spite of their ugliness for the simple reason that they are well imitated, and if what Parini says in his Oration on poetry1 is true, this is because man hates nothing more than he does boredom, and therefore he enjoys seeing something new, however ugly.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
Compreende-se por que, numa sociedade de indivíduos destinados à autonomia privada o atrativo do Novo é tão vivo: ele é sentido como instrumento de "liberação" pessoal, como experiência a ser tentada e vivida, pequena aventura do Eu.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
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
It's time to leave - there is so much out there to do and say and listen to.
~ Gloria Steinem
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessèd world.
~ Terri Guillemets
I remember what it was...to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.
~ James Baldwin
On days like this, Cass said, suddenly, I remember what it was like--I think I remember--to be young, very young. She looked up at him. When everything, touching and tasting--everything--was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.
~ James Baldwin
He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.
~ James Baldwin