Top 100 Quotes About Lyon
#1. Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#2. Give your brain a break and read a book.
Jeff Lyon
#3. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps
#4. I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
Jacques Pepin
#5. Just who am I?" the rough baritone asked in the infuriatingly amused tone one might use with a temperamental child. You're a monster, she wanted to say. A giant - huge and thickly muscled and terrifying. But she flung back her answer like her papa's own daughter. "You're the rebel bastard Glen Lyon.
Kimberly Cates
#6. Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
William Lyon Phelps
#7. In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
William Lyon Phelps
#8. Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
William Lyon Phelps
#10. There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
William Lyon Phelps
#11. Fixing a hole is far more effective than trying to hide it. That approach is also less stressful than constantly worrying that attackers may find the vulnerabilities.
Gordon Fyodor Lyon
#12. To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon Phelps
#13. A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#14. It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#15. My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.
Jenn Lyon
#16. As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.
Danny Lyon
#17. Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#18. There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them".
-- Inspector Clouseau
James Lyon
#19. Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#20. The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
#21. I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
Danny Lyon
#22. I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.
George Ella Lyon
#23. It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.
Jenn Lyon
#24. If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
#26. At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
William Lyon Phelps
#27. Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are.
Jim Lyon
#28. Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.
Nathaniel Lyon
#29. When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
Mary Lyon
#30. I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.
Before I was your mother, I was a girl.
Beth Lyon Barnett
#32. How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
William Lyon Phelps
#33. Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
William Lyon Phelps
#34. In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
William Lyon Phelps
#35. Larry David is such an incredible talent.
Jenn Lyon
#36. One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
#37. The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
William Lyon Phelps
#40. I believed, and still believe, that every person amounts to more than the worst thing he or she has ever done.
Andrea D. Lyon
#41. Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.
Rose George
#42. The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.
Danny Lyon
#43. There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
#45. New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
Daniel Boulud
#46. The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#48. Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#49. Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.
George Ella Lyon
#50. I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
William Lyon Phelps
#51. It's a very weird thing being a photographer.
Danny Lyon
#52. I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#53. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
William Lyon Phelps
#55. was something truly sexy about a man astride a huge beast, controlling it with a squeeze of his tightly wrapped thighs.
Raquel Lyon
#57. Ah, Lyon: the Achilles' heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.
Julie Anne Long
#58. My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
William Lyon Phelps
#59. You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.
George Ella Lyon
#61. Dwight would later learn that being Lyon's friend would cost him opportunities to make more of them, but he was content with that. He had learned the school year before that having a close friend was like having fifty not so close ones. **
Michael Kroft
#62. greatest leader is the one who would be just as content as a servant.
J.L. Lyon
#63. May you always have a friend that is worth that name. Irish blessing
Faith Lyon
#64. I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.
Jenn Lyon
#65. I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.
Danny Lyon
#66. Cyanide. On ice with a twist of lime. Or water. But I'm not budging on the lime."
Lyon, Jennifer (2013-02-22). The Proposition (The Plus One Chronicles) (Kindle Location 1365). Jennifer Lyon Books. Kindle Edition.
Jennifer Lyon
#67. If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#68. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#70. It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
George Herbert
#71. Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#72. I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
William Lyon Phelps
#73. With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304)
Boyd K. Packer
#75. The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
Leonard Slatkin
#76. This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
#77. But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder
oh, what will you think of me
if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
#78. The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
Danny Lyon
#79. This is not a Jewish story. It's a human story. If people don't know the truth about the Holocaust, then it could happen again to anybody, anywhere, at any time to any race or any color.
Gloria Hollander Lyon
#80. Lyon Redmond was either a man on a pilgrimage in search of salvation, or a man out to burn on the pyre of his own love for a woman.
Regardless, he still suffered.
Julie Anne Long
#81. The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#82. Just a kiss, Kitten."
"Kitten?" No one called her that.
His mouth curved. "You're skittish, wanting my touch, but afraid. Deciding if you want to claw me or purr for me. Like a kitten."
She lifted an eyebrow. "What if I claw you?"
"Bring it, baby. That
Jennifer Lyon
#83. Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps
#85. From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#87. Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
William Lyon Phelps
#88. I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
Jenn Lyon
#90. Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.
Carlo Ancelotti
#91. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
#94. The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.
Danny Lyon
#95. I just thought I had to do it. You want this boy to like you, right? And he's so solid, so sure of himself. He knows what he wants: you. Besides, maybe if he touches you, you'll be real.
George Ella Lyon
#97. Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.
William Lyon Phelps
#99. Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
William Lyon Phelps
#100. A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
William Lyon Phelps
