Lorysp Quotes & Sayings

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You saw what I saw, right? Adrienne doing something nice for Xarissa of her own free will.
I think I did, said G.A
Lunette stared into the unknown. This has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse We are all going to die. — Emily Kirby

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable. — Thomas Paine

In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day! — Thich Nhat Hanh

I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so. — George Sweeting

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that. — Shaquille O'Neal

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. — Robert Frost

Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Kami Garcia

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. — Herodotus

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center. — Lee Bermejo

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for "feel." Not that Bean didn't have feelings. He simply refused to think about them or dwell on them or let them influence his decisions, when anything important was at stake. — Orson Scott Card

Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses. — Max Dupain

There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her. — Hester Browne