George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.
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In these circumstances, the FOMC judged that some further firming of monetary policy may be necessary, an assessment with which I concur.
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
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It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
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For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
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Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?
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If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
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I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
