Loring Quotes

#1. -A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

Jesse Ball

#2. You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions. - Loring Blackman

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#3. I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#4. Choice betrays character," I said.
"That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the
sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#5. When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.

Charles Loring Brace

#6. Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.

Emilie Loring

#7. What rubbish anyway, he thought with scorn, an all-powerful god that was everywhere at once yet nowhere to be seen. These grunts believe anything, he thought with distaste.

Howard Loring

#8. It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.

Emilie Loring

#9. I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

Loring M. Black Jr.

#10. Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

Julie Powell

#11. with facts, fear grows dim

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a novel, it would have portended the fall they were all about to take

Alice McDermott

#13. I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.

Emilie Loring

#14. Shit storms are no fun to walk in with your mouth open.

Jean Oram

#15. The challenge is not to be perfect ... it's to be whole

Jane Fonda

#16. You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

Emilie Loring

#17. Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.

Emilie Loring

#18. Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

Emilie Loring

#19. She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.

Emilie Loring

#20. We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture.

C. Loring Brace

#21. We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

Nizar Qabbani

#22. No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi