Top 96 Quotes About Amory
#1. I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes." Monsignor
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. Their poses were strewn about the pale dawn like broken glass.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. Oh, it isn't that I mind the glittering caste system," admitted Amory. "I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I've got to be one of them.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#7. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Amory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei.
George R R Martin
#8. Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. Killed so tragically in a plane crash, in a plane he was flying himself; David Amory, her grandfather, who was aboard that plane,
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#10. There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. Life opened up in one if its amazing bursts of radiance and Amory suddenly and permanently rejected an old epigram that had been playing listlessly in his mind: 'Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.' On the contrary, Amory felt an immense desire to give people a sense of security.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.
Vandana Shiva
#14. Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. Amory usually liked men individually, yet feared them in crowds unless the crowd was around him.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. "I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
Amory Lovins
#22. There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.
Daniel Amory
#23. Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. This is so funny," said Ellen, noticing the seating arrangement. "Isn't this funny? Tom, come sit next to Robin. Griffin, sit next to Laura."
I stood up and sat next to Robin while Griffin brought his chair over to Laura.
"That's better," said Ellen. "Isn't that better?
Daniel Amory
#27. People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.
Cleveland Amory
#28. Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.
Amory Lovins
#29. There are only two ways out for animals at pounds
being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.
Cleveland Amory
#30. If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
Amory Lovins
#33. Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?
Cleveland Amory
#34. Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
Amory Lovins
#35. The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
Amory Lovins
#36. Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.
Cleveland Amory
#37. Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.
Amory Lovins
#38. My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."
He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."
"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this.
Tarah Benner
#39. To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.
Cleveland Amory
#40. Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize ... that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
Cleveland Amory
#41. By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
Amory Lovins
#42. You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
Cleveland Amory
#43. Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.
Amory Lovins
#44. In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
Cleveland Amory
#45. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
Daniel Amory
#46. That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street's burn.
Daniel Amory
#47. Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
Cleveland Amory
#48. We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
Amory Lovins
#49. I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.
Cleveland Amory
#50. You know, sometimes I think this is just not it," he said, his glasses flashing from the early night's light.
He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.
"You know what I mean, Tom?" he asked. "It's just not.
Daniel Amory
#51. The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.
Cleveland Amory
#52. We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
Amory Lovins
#53. Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
Daniel Amory
#54. One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
Cleveland Amory
#55. A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
Cleveland Amory
#56. Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
Amory Lovins
#57. I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
Amory Lovins
#58. Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.
Cleveland Amory
#59. I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
Amory Lovins
#60. I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.
Cleveland Amory
#61. Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
Amory Lovins
#62. Don't you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world? asked Connor irrelevantly.
Daniel Amory
#63. He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want
not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable ... 'very few things matter and nothing matters very much
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory
#65. Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.
Amory Lovins
#66. If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
Amory Lovins
#67. I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
Amory Lovins
#68. Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
Amory Lovins
#69. Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.
Amory Lovins
#71. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
Cleveland Amory
#72. I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
Cleveland Amory
#73. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
Amory Lovins
#74. On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Cleveland Amory
#75. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.
Amory Lovins
#76. For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
Cleveland Amory
#77. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
Amory Lovins
#78. The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Cleveland Amory
#79. I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
Amory Lovins
#80. The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.
Daniel Amory
#81. I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
Cleveland Amory
#82. The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
Amory Lovins
#83. It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
Cleveland Amory
#84. The written word is the best thing that mankind has ever done. I'm glad to be a part of it!
Christie Amory
#85. You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
Cleveland Amory
#86. The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
Cleveland Amory
#87. Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
Amory Lovins
#88. What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
Amory Lovins
#89. I've officially turned into a loser," she whispered cynically. "I'm looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I've had my 'going out and having fun' quota for the year, I guess, and it's June.
Daniel Amory
#90. The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Cleveland Amory
#91. There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory
#92. The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Cleveland Amory
#93. It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons.
Cleveland Amory
#94. A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy ... with a simple payback under 16 months.
Amory Lovins
#95. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.
Daniel Amory
#96. She loves swimming," said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.
"Don't you Kara?" asked Ellen.
There was no response.
"I didn't start until I was three," said Ellen. "She's got a two year start on me.
Daniel Amory
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