Top 100 Lionel's Quotes
#1. The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.
Lionel Wigram
#2. I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion ... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.
Lionel Richie
#3. When the younger generation seems to step over the wall of the old generation, it's rarely ever because they surpassed them. It's usually because the old generation took a step back and decided let the youngsters steal the show.
Lionel Suggs
#4. And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation.
Lionel Shriver
#5. I affirm the qualia of reality, for the principle of wisdom captivates the thought, even if it's only offering a mere modicum of value in belief.
Lionel Suggs
#6. Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
Lionel Shriver
#7. He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.
Lionel Shriver
#8. Art is a concept used for making your soul grow. It's God's way of showing you that you also have the power to create. It's reality's way of allowing you to dress the world.
Lionel Suggs
#9. Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.
Lionel Shriver
#10. There's something nihilistic about not having children
Lionel Shriver
#11. CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.
Jen Campbell
#12. Commonly, love isn't defined in the sense that it supposed to be. I find it often to be misunderstood. Love is like a principle, flowing out and in like the seasons. It's an attraction not just built by personal attachment, but by one's very presence.
Lionel Suggs
#13. In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
Lionel Shriver
#14. I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.
Lionel Shriver
#15. When one needs an answer to life's greatest questions, look towards either Chaos or Nothingness.
Lionel Suggs
#16. It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
Lionel Messi
#17. I don't understand why doctors don't advise everybody to lay on twenty extra pounds while they've got the chance. I might not advocate outright obesity, but there's a reason for fat - it's a resource.
Lionel Shriver
#18. It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Lionel Shriver
#19. Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake.
Lionel Shriver
#20. For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
Lionel Messi
#21. My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
Lionel Suggs
#22. The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
Lionel Shriver
#23. It's not your job to be *pre-disappointed* for him, dig? You ... go on and on about how big and terrible 'the world' is. Well, maybe so. But in that case, it's the world's job to be big and terrible, not yours.
Lionel Shriver
#24. Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.
Lionel Messi
#25. Whenever I see fat people, they're eating," I ruminated safely out of the diner's earshot. "Don't give me this it's glands or genes or a slow metabolism rubbish. It's food. They're fat because they eat the wrong food, too much of it, and all the time.
Lionel Shriver
#26. Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
Lionel Shriver
#27. I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
Lionel Richie
#28. I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
Lionel Blue
#29. When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.
Lionel Richie
#31. If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.
Lionel Sosa
#32. Happiness is an 'I' thing," Culligan says. "It's within yourself. Nothing external is going to make you happy.
Lionel Fisher
#33. A female's body should be looked at and respected as something divine. At least, that was the original thought, but time marches on, and the sanctity of the sacred body is no longer sacred.
Lionel Suggs
#34. Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#35. That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's
Lionel Shriver
#36. Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest 'I AM.
Lionel Suggs
#37. We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
Lionel Sosa
#38. Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
Lionel Sosa
#39. I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so utterly uninteresting that I could faint. And that's when you know you're in love; the tedium isn't unbearable, it's lovely.
Lionel Shriver
#40. The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
Lionel Suggs
#41. Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.
Lionel
#42. There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within the white void of truth.
Lionel Suggs
#43. It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.
Lionel Richie
#44. I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
Lionel Shriver
#45. I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.
Lionel Shriver
#46. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
Lionel Messi
#47. You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
#48. I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge.
"Lionel hates it too," murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.
Alan Hollinghurst
#49. It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.
Lionel Suggs
#50. Sometimes, I believe that God overestimates his ability. It's quite a shame to be so perfect, yet lack so much imagination. But don't worry, I'll give your Creator God a C- for effort.
Lionel Suggs
#51. It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
Lionel Shriver
#52. Memory takes root only half in the folds of the brain: half's in the concrete streets we have lived along.
Lionel Abrahams
#53. The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.
Lionel Shriver
#54. Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic.
Dani Alves
#55. A God's strength lay in persuading others that they are weak.
Lionel Suggs
#56. What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting me overhead with the stern reproach that is every Western woman's sly delight, "You're too thin"?
Lionel Shriver
#57. I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.
Lionel Messi
#58. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.
Lionel Shriver
#59. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known.
Lionel Shriver
#60. For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
Lionel Barrymore
#61. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.
Lionel Shriver
#62. Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.
Lionel Messi
#63. There's something to be said for doing one thing right.
Lionel Ferbos
#64. There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.
John Glover
#65. You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world.
Harry Redknapp
#66. Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. Messi has amazing qualities, he is the best of all, number one. That is unquestiionable.
Luis Figo
#67. Meanwhile, I find comfort in my faith in God, in the wonderful family and friends He's placed in my path. On my lowest days, something will happen that lets me know He's watching out for me, that He sends just the right person to minister to me and to comfort my heart when I need it most." ***
Lionel Fisher
#68. The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.
Lionel Suggs
#69. I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence.
Lionel Suggs
#70. Because of her, there is no bridge between dreams and reality. In reality, because of her, drinking a glass of water has taste. In a dream, it doesn't have taste, unless she's in it with me. I do not have to dream about her, because all of my dreams about her, is my only reality.
Lionel Suggs
#71. I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
Lionel Barber
#72. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated
Sun Tzu
#73. When I usually outshine the light, I look for evanescence. The ending to my resplendence is much more divine, when it's singing a sweet lullaby of captured shine.
Lionel Suggs
#74. I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.
Lionel Suggs
#75. It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.
Lionel Shriver
#76. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
Gary Krist
#77. I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
Lionel Richie
#78. We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.
Lionel Trilling
#79. When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.
Lionel Suggs
#80. There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.
Lionel Wigram
#81. Happiness is a color that you can never run out of. You can paint a picture or an illusion with happiness. It's a color that you always pick, before actually choosing a color.
Lionel Suggs
#82. If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.
Lionel Suggs
#83. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.
Lionel Suggs
#84. It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.
Lionel Messi
#85. The way I see it, the world is divided into the watchers and the watchees, and there's more and more of the audience and less and less to see. People who actually do anything are a goddamned endangered species.
Lionel Shriver
#86. It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self.
Lionel Suggs
#87. The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#88. It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
Lionel Shriver
#89. Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
Lionel
#90. I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.
Lionel Richie
#91. There were the things he used to sustain life: a box of fish food. And the things he'd used to take it: a pair of nickel-plated handcuffs.
Lionel Dahmer
#92. Even if I played for a million years, I'd never come close to Maradona. Not that I'd want to anyway. He's the greatest there's ever been.
Lionel
#93. For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It's a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it's something I can look back on and know I've tested myself against the very best.
John Terry
#94. It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.
Lionel Hampton
#95. Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
Lionel Shriver
#96. In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.
Lionel Shriver
#97. Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
#98. I'd get this, I luuuuuuuv you, buddy! stuff, and I'd just look at him like, Who are you talking to, guy? What does that mean, your dad 'loves' you and hasn't a [bleep]ing clue who you are? What's he love then? Some kid in Happy Days. Not me.
Lionel Shriver
#99. I didn't put in my diaphragm' I mumbled when we were through.
You stirred, 'Is it dangerous?'
'It's very dangerous,' I said.
Indeed, just about any stranger could have turned up nine months later. We might as well have left the door unlocked.
Lionel Shriver
#100. It's not a matter of pride; it's a matter of principle. I simply will not bow, for I stand too tall for even the Heavens to climb.
Lionel Suggs
