Lawrence G. Lovasik Quotes

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Discipline

• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Friendly

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Night

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • History
  • Know
  • Present

• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • High
  • Quality
  • Present

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Future
  • Present

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Eyes

• The clean delicate lines of her figure, the exquisite pure colouring of hair and skin, the charming young arrogance of the eyes - this was beauty, he reflected, a miracle, a revelation. Her virginal fineness and her dress, which was the tint of pale fire, gave her the air of a creature of ice and flame.

  

  John Buchan
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air

• You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

  

  James Patterson
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Worry

• Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

  Ann Landers
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.

  

  David Douglas Duncan
  • World
  • Today
  • Laughter

• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Eyes
  • Present
  • Gentleman