John Lonergan Quotes & Sayings

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes. — Ravi Zacharias

I made my way to the control room, where I had the most mind-numbing communication that I've ever experienced with a man. And no, I am not a chauvinist. But if you're a woman, you must realize by now your propensity toward largely complex and seemingly illogical thought processes, making you capable of inflicting unusually cruel amounts of distress upon the relatively simple mind of a man. Personally, I'd take that as a compliment. — Mixerman

Women in my world are respected as much as men. — Michael Arrington

He moved closer and threw his arm around my shoulders, murmuring, Why are the beautiful ones always so troubled, huh? — L. H. Cosway

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down. — Matthew Sweet

As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar. — Ilona Andrews

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition. — Michael Helm

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope

It seems we must be taken twice, by the love that we inflict and then by the infliction of being loved, before we have the humility to look and take whatever agreeable plant that we have never seen before, because of it being all around our feet, and take it and watch it grow, choosing the lesser truth because it's all that we'll ever know. — John McGahern

Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there. — Reggie Crist

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style — Tony Dovale

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration. — Larry Kramer

The nearness I mean comes after death perhaps. It is what we are struggling for and if I found it either I would be dead or I would have seen it for a second and life would be intolerable. — Flannery O'Connor

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt. — Zig Ziglar

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching. — Mao Zedong