George Horace Lorimer Quotes

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

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• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Alone
  • Humble
  • Weight

• Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Surprise
  • Sages

• I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Hate
  • Ignorance
  • Burden

• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

  

  William Congreve
  • Black
  • Brain
  • Study

• I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.

  

  Roddy Bottum Faith No More
  • Kids
  • Gay
  • Grateful

• The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Universe
  • Built
  • Architect

• Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Today
  • Giving

• People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Feels

• Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

  

  Bill Burr

• Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.

  

  Adam Lashinsky
  • Money
  • Enemies
  • Uber

• Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • People
  • Better
  • Begin

• Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judge

• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Solution
  • Real Life
  • Messenger

• You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Sinner
  • Sermons