Lorysims Quotes & Sayings

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement — Michael Josephson

I'm still not at my ideal weight. I didn't lose forty-five pounds before the wedding. Who knows if I ever will. I've lost twenty-seven and a half pounds, and that's better than nothing. Somehow, though, today I'm thinking more about what I've gained than what I've lost. — K.A. Barson

Sometimes the more you try to focus on something, the less you really see it's beauty.
- Burnum (Aboriginal Guide) — Samuel L. Norman

Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world. — John Kendrick Bangs

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched. — Giacomo Leopardi

For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt. — Sophocles

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait. — Eben Moglen

When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known. — Rich Wilkerson Jr.

Sales is the parent of marketing. — Eben Pagan

What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth. — Jesse Jackson

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. — Herbie Hancock

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band. — Tommy Chong