L. S. Lowry Quotes

Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.

The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.

Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Writing:It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.

Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.

On DreamsOnly one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.

That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

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Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.

It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

Do you know that I no longer see colors?"Jonas's heart broke.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

When one star sets, a million spring forth.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?