Joseph Lewis Quotes

Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.

Joseph Lewis

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• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Story
  • Pride

• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Right
  • Soldier

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Voice
  • Moment
  • Spanish

• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Belief
  • Backgrounds
  • Embarrassing

• I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.

  

  Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
  • Guy
  • Special
  • Lucky

• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Attention
  • Fool
  • Wavering

• They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Friendship

• Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Concerned

• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  

  Waverley Root
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Deserve

• Knowing that the treatments that would be administered the following morning would erase all memory of our conversation. I did not last long in that job.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Job
  • Memory
  • Treatments

• I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Thinking
  • Television
  • Fascinating

• The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Perfect
  • Humans
  • Facts

• Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Facts
  • Opinions
  • Emotionalism