Lawrence Boythorn Quotes

I went to school with this fellow, Lawrence Boythorn," said Mr. Jarndyce, tapping the letter as he laid it on the table, "more than five and forty years ago. He was then the most impetuous boy in the world, and he is now the most impetuous man. He was then the loudest boy in the world, and he is now the loudest man. He was then the heartiest and sturdiest boy in the world, and he is now the heartiest and sturdiest man. He is a tremendous fellow. ~ Charles Dickens

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. ~ Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

sustained high gross profit margins relative to industry peers tends to indicate durable competitive advantage. Zeroing ~ Lawrence A. Cunningham

As Einstein might have put it, only a very malicious (and, therefore, in his mind unimaginable) God would have conspired to have created a universe that so unambiguously points to a Big Bang origin without its having occurred. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. ~ Lawrence Eagleburger

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. ~ Lawrence Welk

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch. ~ Lawrence Jackson

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare. ~ Lawrence Wright

Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional. ~ Lawrence O'Donnell

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Men who've made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they've chosen to follow. ~ Mark Lawrence

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. ~ D.H. Lawrence

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board ~ D.H. Lawrence

Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader. ~ Lawrence Block

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. ~ Lawrence Summers

"I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball." ~ Lawrence Taylor

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I wondered once if Corion had put that sickness in me, if I were the tool and he the architect of that violence and cruelty. I wondered if having taken his head, if having grown from boy to man, I would be a better person. I wondered if I might be the man the Nuban wanted me to be, the man Tutor Lundist hoped for. ~ Mark Lawrence

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only. ~ Brother Lawrence

The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard. ~ Bill Lawrence

People always make war when they say they love peace. ~ D.H. Lawrence

And looking back, Ruby knew this was when it started; the slow unraveling of all that she had held as sure and true. ~ Anna Lawrence Pietroni

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me. ~ Lawrence Tierney

Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion other galaxies that, we now know, exist in our observable universe. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

we are confident that the fundamental principle of long-term ownership of quality companies is a sensible one, new ~ Lawrence A. Cunningham

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation. ~ Lawrence Weiner

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place. ~ D.H. Lawrence

That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he endeavored so to do, he had no need of a director to advise him, but that he needed much a Confessor to absolve him. That he was very sensible of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration. ~ Brother Lawrence

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ~ D.H. Lawrence

If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily... ~ D.H. Lawrence

We are afraid of the instincts. We are afraid of the intuition within us. We suppress the instincts, and we cut off our intuitional awareness from one another and from the world. The reason being some great shock to the procreative self. Now we know one another only as ideal or social or political entities, fleshless, bloodless and cold like Bernard Shaw's creatures. Intuitively we are dead to one another, we have all gone cold. But by intuition alone can man really be aware of man, or of the living, substantial world. By intuition alone can man love and know either woman or world, and by intuition alone can he bring forth images of the magic awareness which we call art. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver. ~ Martin Lawrence