God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it’s in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

This package was an interesting novelty, but was never going to be a big idea. It’s not exactly hard to find a hot cup of coffee in America.

The author speculates that one of the differences between a fallen world and a restored one is that men will be able to say they have had enough and mean exactly that – rather than...

Sure, some people are going to see me as a novelty but I actually don’t care about that stuff,

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

The voice of originality doesn’t get appeared, but is always heard very loud and clear through a person’ words.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn’t...

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances...

People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting...

Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. “Did you...

Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge...

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad

old-fashioned” Christian heritage.

I’m old, but I’m not good enough to be jaded.

After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next one should be about. There were about 12 people on my list....

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from an immense and almost frightening tradition; they accept that tradition or they fight...

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It’s like when you get a new car. Everything is different. The smell, the sound of the horn and seats, and it...

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

That was the first World Series in an indoor stadium, so it was kind of a novelty. It was extremely loud. We’ve had very, very similar moments here where you can actually feel it on...

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value — a test, it is true, which can only be...

To eliminate the discrepancy between men’s plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis...

It was more than a sideline thing or a novelty. It was a relationship.