Joseph Lewis Quotes

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

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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

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

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Pride
  • Story

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Right
  • Soldier

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Sorry

• Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • She
  • Sky

• You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • May
  • Know

• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • World
  • Trying
  • Peace

• Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

  

  D. Patrick Miller
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  

  Zeno of Elea
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Half

• The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Important
  • Wisdom
  • Training

• You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Live
  • This World

• When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Nonviolence
  • Truth As God

• Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Time
  • Why
  • Die

• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Interest
  • Opinions
  • Sencere

• I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • She
  • Girl
  • Problem

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

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Facts
  • Opinions
  • Emotionalism