Lionel Quotes

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.

We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

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.

When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

For the living, death is thievery.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

The secret is that there is no secret.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.

Well, replace the word 'kinda' with the word 'repeatedly,' and the word 'dog' with 'son.'

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

If everything goes right then I can get going.

I Rushed to get back before it was time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I've played everything but the harp.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.