L. E. Landon Quotes

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

My heart is its own grave!

For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

Confidence is its own security.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.