Top 100 Quotes About Lionel
#1. This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
Lionel Blue
#2. The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.
Lionel Suggs
#3. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.
Lionel Trilling
#4. Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
Lionel
#5. I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.
Lionel Messi
#6. You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.
Lionel Shriver
#7. I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.
Lionel Shriver
#8. From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.
Lionel Messi
#9. 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
#10. You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
Lionel Tiger
#11. I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.
Lionel Messi
#12. In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
Lionel Trilling
#13. I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.
Lionel Shriver
#14. Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation ... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
Lionel Murphy
#15. I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
Lionel Blue
#16. 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
#17. In life, you can learn a lot by simply watching the water.
Lionel Suggs
#18. Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a body designed to expel its own replacement.
Lionel Shriver
#19. The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Lionel Trilling
#21. Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.
Lionel Shriver
#22. But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry.
Lionel Luthor From Smallville
#23. In fact, because the unself-aware - which includes basically everybody - are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and what makes them tick are surprisingly useless.
Lionel Shriver
#24. 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
#25. The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#26. If you are not thinking universally and intellectually, you can only remain flawlessly stagnant.
Lionel Suggs
#27. What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
Lionel Blue
#28. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
Lionel Suggs
#29. On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue
#30. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.
Lionel Suggs
#31. Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'
Lionel Barrymore
#33. [Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes ... deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.
Lionel Tiger
#34. I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.
Lionel Shriver
#35. The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
Lionel Blue
#36. Mexico is so close to us. No matter how long we stay here, we identify as Americans first, but we also have a place for our mother country. That is very visible in San Antonio.
Lionel Sosa
#37. I can't imagine what this great country would be like if the Mexican Revolution hadn't happened.
Lionel Sosa
#38. Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.
Lionel Trilling
#39. The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
Lionel Shriver
#40. And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.
Lionel Shriver
#41. Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings of delusions.
Lionel Suggs
#42. Almost at once, sleep, like some rhythmical, snoring vacuum cleaner, consumed the awful day.
Lionel Davidson
#43. The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
Lionel Murphy
#44. But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is ...
Lionel Suggs
#45. The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.
Lionel Shriver
#46. Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.
Lionel Shriver
#47. So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Lionel Hampton
#48. 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
#49. We must lead in a different way ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.
Lionel Jospin
#50. The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.
Lionel Messi
#51. We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
Lionel Shriver
#52. Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
Lionel Richie
#53. Just cause you get used to something doesn't mean you like it." He added, snapping the magenta, "You're used to me.
Lionel Shriver
#54. Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
Lionel Blue
#55. I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
Lionel Barber
#56. But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
Lionel Shriver
#57. 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
#58. It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.
Lionel Shriver
#59. Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
Lionel Trilling
#60. People who need people are threatened by people who don't. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.
Lionel Fisher
#61. 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
#63. Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.
Lionel Tiger
#64. 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
#65. For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
Lionel Blue
#66. 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
#67. Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
Lionel Shriver
#68. Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel Shriver
#69. No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.
Lionel Richie
#70. Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
#71. Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
Lionel Blue
#72. My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
Lionel Barber
#75. Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?
Lionel Suggs
#76. My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lionel Barber
#77. Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world.
Lionel Suggs
#78. Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
Lionel Shriver
#79. 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
#80. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.
Lionel Shriver
#81. He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact,
Lionel Shriver
#82. Unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced that can prove you are wrong. That is why I won't write a book [Lionel Logue concluded]
Mark Logue
#83. A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Lionel Shriver
#84. The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
Lionel Shriver
#85. I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.
Lionel Suggs
#87. My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make
Lionel Richie
#88. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.
Lionel Johnson
#89. Remember, faith is the harbinger of chaos.
Lionel Suggs
#90. Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet.
Lionel Messi
#91. I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.
Lionel Blue
#92. 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
#93. People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
Lionel Shriver
#94. I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.
Lionel Suggs
#95. Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.
Lionel Suggs
#96. A mind of one logic is the mind of a prison.
Lionel Suggs
#97. It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
Lionel Shriver
#98. Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.
Lionel Suggs
#99. I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").
Philip Kitcher
#100. It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Lionel Trilling
