Top 100 Lew Quotes
#1. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca
Stuart M. Kaminsky
#2. I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
James Ellroy
#3. Lew? Not that I don't appreciate it, but it
Nora Roberts
#4. I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.
Sidney Sheinberg
#5. Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
Bill Fitch
#6. A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
Lew Wallace
#7. I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
Jacob Lew
#8. Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
Lew Wallace
#9. It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
Jacob Lew
#10. I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
Jacob Lew
#11. My ancestors further back than the first Roman were Hebrews." "The stubborn pride of thy race is not lost in thee," said Arrius, observing a flush upon the rower's face. "Pride is never so loud as when in chains." "What cause hast thou for pride?" "That I am a Jew." Arrius smiled.
Lew Wallace
#12. The wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun making summer for the roses and vines outside. Everything in the apartment was Roman,
Lew Wallace
#13. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Lew Wallace
#14. If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
Jacob Lew
#15. Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.
Lew Hunter
#16. Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
Jacob Lew
#17. BEN-HUR." Esther returned the letter to her father, while a choking sensation gathered in her throat. There was not a word in the missive for her
not even in the salutation had she a share
and it would have been so easy to have written "and to thine, peace." For the first time
Lew Wallace
#18. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Lew Wallace
#19. Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.
Lew Welch
#20. To me, it's the White House and always will be.
Lew Wasserman
#21. I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit.
Lew Temple
#22. Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
Jacob Lew
#24. We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
Jacob Lew
#25. There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Jacob Lew
#26. Hope deals with the future; now and the past are but servants that wait on her with impulse and suggestive circumstance.
Lew Wallace
#27. And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhaps Jeffry Dahmer was a "food offender.")
Mike Lew
#28. Thy heart is good, Esther, good as thy mother's was; and I pray
it have not the fate of most good hearts
to be trampled upon
by the unmerciful and blind.
Lew Wallace
#29. Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
Lew Wallace
#30. I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
Lew Wasserman
#31. I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength.
Lew Wallace
#32. To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty
to the poor and humble.
Lew Wallace
#33. This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
Lew Wallace
#34. It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.
Lew Wallace
#35. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace
#36. We invent ourselves out of ingredients we didn't choose, by a process we can't control.
Lew Welch
#37. In a verse of the Shema they found all the learning and all the law of their simple lives
that their Lord was One God, and that they must love him with all their souls. And they loved him, and such was their wisdom, surpassing that of kings.
Lew Wallace
#38. 'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.
Lew Temple
#39. What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
Lew Wallace
#40. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
#41. I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
Lew Wasserman
#42. It's all about the stache, and I have so many fans that offer me tips on mustache wax that I actually really appreciate. I've been able to get some leads on some good products.
Lew Temple
#43. It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
Lew Wallace
#44. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
Lew Wasserman
#45. We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
Jacob Lew
#46. There are lots of ways to work together.
Jacob Lew
#47. Congress should get the job done.
Jacob Lew
#48. There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Jacob Lew
#50. We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
Lew Wasserman
#51. From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last
ah, with what years of toil!
I stood in the perfect day, and beheld the principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God
Love!
Lew Wallace
#52. For to-day I take or give;
For to-day I drink and live;
For to-day I beg or borrow;
Who knows about the silent morrow?
Lew Wallace
#53. I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
Jacob Lew
#54. Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.
Lew Wallace
#55. Father of all
God!
what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.
Lew Wallace
#56. We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.
Lew Wallace
#57. The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Lew Wallace
#58. I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
#59. Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.
Elizabeth Van Lew
#60. It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.
Lew Wallace
#61. Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
Lew Wasserman
#62. Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he would take compassion and give me answer.
Lew Wallace
#63. Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted; effects in due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.
Lew Wallace
#64. For I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason to a point, a dead, impassable wall; arrived there, all that remains is to stand and cry aloud for help.
Lew Wallace
#65. If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
Jacob Lew
#66. The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting religious liberties in this country has been important to the president and will always be.
Jacob Lew
#67. When I was cast for 'Walking Dead,' I was still doing 'Lone Ranger,' so I have my 'Lone Ranger' look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache.
Lew Temple
#68. Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?
Lew Welch
#69. The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Jacob Lew
#70. I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
Jacob Lew
#71. THE BASIC CON
Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.
Lew Welch
#72. I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
Jack Lew
#73. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Lew Wallace
#74. For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.
Lew Wallace
#75. Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.
Lew Wasserman
#76. You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
Lew Freedman
#77. Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
Jacob Lew
#78. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.
Lew Wallace
#79. Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Jacob Lew
#80. The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.
Jacob Lew
#81. ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)
Lew Welch
#82. Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
Lew Wasserman
#83. Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
Lew Wallace
#84. I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
Lew Wasserman
#85. Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
Lew Wallace
#86. Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
Lew Wallace
#87. The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.
Jacob Lew
#88. When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Lew Wallace
#89. Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman
#90. You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
Lew Wasserman
#91. If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
Jacob Lew
#92. The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
Jacob Lew
#93. The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.
Lew Welch
#94. Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
Jacob Lew
#95. While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
Lew Wallace
#96. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.
Mike Lew
#97. Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?
Lew Welch
#98. The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
Lew Wallace
#99. Most Americans want health insurance.
Jacob Lew
#100. The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the end.
Lew Wallace
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