George Horace Lorimer Quotes

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

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• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • Memory
  • Admire

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Mean
  • Things

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Live
  • Health
  • Wellbeing

• Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Good
  • Important
  • Feeling

• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

  

  Becky G
  • Before
  • Other
  • Both

• It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Space
  • Perception

• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Silence

• Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Start
  • Grow

• With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Children
  • School
  • Community

• In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Conflict
  • Loyalty

• Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Trouble
  • Littles
  • Knowing

• The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
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