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
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• 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

• It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Age
  • Song

• 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 feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Great

• shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • War
  • Conversation

• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Laugh
  • Results
  • Silent

• If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Focus
  • Literature
  • Silence

• 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