Lamon Quotes & Sayings

Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt. — Thomas De Quincey

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl

Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits. — Sam Owen

In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended. — Harold Holzer

How long can I live with just safe and easy before my life becomes completely devoid of meaning? — Cora Carmack

You showed me there is something in the forest to cure most anything that bothers you. — Donald Smith

He was a very young man. He had just graduated from college - in the spring of the year 1935 - and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life - and that none had been offered to him anywhere. — Ayn Rand

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple. — Olafur Eliasson

I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity. — Peter Lindbergh

Without money you can't reach to girl's heart. — Pratik Akkawar

As a massive fangirl myself, having people ship any of my characters is just beyond cool. — Sarah J. Maas

But he had seen the eyes of love. He knew how it looked like, knew what it felt like. It wasn't about conquest or power or good memories pulled like golden threads scattered haphazardly in a quilt made mostly from pain. Love felt good all the time, not just in moments in between angst and fear and control. — Jacqueline Jones LaMon

The only writing that was any good was what you made up, what you imagined. That made everything come true. Everything good he had ever written he'd made up. None of it had ever happened. Other things had happened. Better things, maybe. That was what the family couldn't understand. They thought it was all experience. Nick in the stories was never himself. He made him up. Of course he had never seen an Indian woman having a baby. That was what made it good. Nobody knew that. — Ernest Hemingway,

Never fear being alone, because you never are. — Rod McKuen

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself? — Malebo Sephodi

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President. — Harold Holzer

The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain. — Susan Catalano

I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test? — Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa

A dream is a vision of the future, in light of the past, tainted by imagination. — Dana Lamon