George Horace Lorimer Quotes

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

George Horace Lorimer

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• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Security
  • Transportation

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Divine
  • Works
  • Slaves

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• Every role is a new form of surrender.

  

  Laura Dern
  • New
  • Role
  • Surrender

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• All children are manipulators.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• Is it possible to observe without the observer?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sorry

• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Real
  • May
  • Done

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Writing
  • Book

• Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • God
  • Perfect

• Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.

  

  Maimonides
  • Justice
  • Fate

• His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Age

• Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • She
  • Truth

• Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.

  

  Dion Boucicault
  • Law
  • Irish

• The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Versus
  • Short Story
  • Decorum

• When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Truth
  • Tongue