George Horace Lorimer Quotes

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

George Horace Lorimer

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• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Myself
  • Crazy

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Bad
  • History
  • Organization

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• 'I don’t have to be a gentleman,' said Balzac. 'I am an artist.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Gentleman

• We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Option

• Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Serious

• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

  

  Tyson Gay
  • Life
  • Done

• On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

  

  Betsy Beers

• It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

  

  Chris Daughtry
  • Good
  • Music
  • May

• Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Free

• I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.

  

  John Delaney
  • People

• I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Up

• ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

  

  Wayne Allyn Root
  • Government
  • Hurt
  • Accepting

• I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Children
  • Education
  • Translation

• Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Mountain

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Country
  • Silence
  • Allies

• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Silence
  • Silent
  • Wounds