Matthew Lyon quote: "I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches"

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
MARY LYON

I had two months of not doing anything except wonder how my arm was going to feel. But I'm back thro...
BRANDON LYON

I struggled a little bit, but I've been talking to 'MD' (pitching coach Mark Davis ) quite a bit the...
BRANDON LYON

It just seemed like I would give up a couple hits, then start falling behind hitters and I would try...
BRANDON LYON

I'd have liked to finish out the year stronger than I did, ... But there's always next year, and thi...
BRANDON LYON

We hit the ball tonight as hard as we've hit all year.
BILLY LYON

All four of these kids (outfield) can run a ball down and all four have good arms.
BILLY LYON

Sarah missed 15 games last year when she was hit in the face with a ball. With Gillis healthy, we ex...
BILLY LYON

She caught almost every pitch last year. We plan on giving her a break every now and then to let (Sa...
BILLY LYON

The varsity returns eight starters on defense and seven on offense.
BILLY LYON

Hopefully, this tough, competitive schedule will help us win the region. It will hurt our win-loss r...
BILLY LYON

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
MARY LYON

It's 90 percent mental, and 10 percent physical. It's not hard to lie on the sled.
ROBBIE LYON

Right now, it's like there's a lot of duct tape holding it together. It works just well enough for p...
BARRETT LYON

From what I understood, he and a bunch of his friends hung out in chat rooms, and he was being hired...
BARRETT LYON

Those are the scary ones.
BARRETT LYON

We saw the extortion racket take off first, but now it is a mixture. You are seeing extortion; you a...
BARRETT LYON

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything
BILL LYON

People have no idea what they're getting into. It feels like the biggest run of adrenaline — somet...
ROBBIE LYON

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.
MARY LYON

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail t...
MARY LYON

Most times he wouldn't do anything if the bull was not up to scratch. Or the public would be waiting...
BILL LYON

She's taking her shots from where she should be. She's much improved over last year.
BILL LYON

If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON

You get as many G's (forces of gravity) as a fighter jet pilot.
ROBBIE LYON

At the old shop, it was at their house, so Grandma would make lunch, make dinner and serve that to c...
JOHN LYON

If I'll admit to adultery, I'll admit to everything.
HARRY LYON

Wow. That's about all I can say. I'm really surprised that it was 2 to 1 against, that was sort of a...
DAVID LYON

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conf...
DAVID LYON

I honestly don't know what else to think, for the life of me.
DAVID LYON

We screened it a number of different ways and one of those screenings indicated the possibility of e...
DAVID LYON

in a great rush.
DAVID LYON

This will be a privileged cohort. They will get more attention and at least as good an education as ...
DAVID LYON

It improves your heart muscle, it lowers your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, and it improv...
MARY LYON

I've been shot twice in my life - both times over women.
HARRY LYON

If it hadn't been for that pressure, nothing would have been done.
JAMES LYON

This segment should appeal to all ages of listeners.
JAMES LYON

The concert is intended to raise scholarship funds for the School of Music.
JAMES LYON

I just try to take it day by day and live for every day and enjoy every day with my friends and fami...
MANDI LYON

Kidney cancer is one of the cancers that they don't have many treatment options for and everything i...
MANDI LYON

I have an eight month old baby I can't just lay down and give up, I have to keep going every day and...
MANDI LYON

I'm very overwhelmed, but very thankful for all the support.
MANDI LYON

I just, I never could recover, I kept feeling bad for a couple of months and then went through a cou...
MANDI LYON

It's nice to play at home. It's nice not having to wake up at 6:30 and drive to Albuquerque.
MICHAEL LYON

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the b...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LYON

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 A knowledge of the Bi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief i...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus...
SOPHIA LYON FAHS

We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well...
SOPHIA LYON FAHS

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations be...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to hi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intan...
SOPHIA LYON FAHS

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some s...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admir...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, bu...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, g...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisu...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Method...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupatio...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not n...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The average Englishman does not see why a stranger should accost him with jocosity - many Englishmen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

It's really nasty. It's really difficult to watch them living in conditions like that. It took awhil...
CAPT. PAUL LYON

We had some electrical towers that were blocking a view - we got to blow that up.
CAPT. PAUL LYON

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

We all knew what we were going over to do. We all hoped nobody would get hurt, but that illusion was...
CAPT. PAUL LYON

It would heat the water so hot you couldn't take showers.
CAPT. PAUL LYON

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is t...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual wo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then o...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I cannot explain to another the joy and the happiness I get out of teaching. It is more than a profe...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate h...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every househo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

We'd talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one sit...
CAPT. PAUL LYON

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to hi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

You never really know who your friend is. Everybody we talked to, we had to search. They were very f...
CAPT. PAUL LYON

After that we didn't get as close to an interpreter. We didn't want to.
CAPT. PAUL LYON

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.

Before I was your moth...
BETH LYON BARNETT

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in so...
GEORGE ELLA LYON

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spo...
MATTHEW SWEET

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
MATTHEW BRODERICK

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends....
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I ...
MATTHEW SETTLE

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative...
MATTHEW SCULLY

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completel...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
MATTHEW QUICK

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
MATTHEW SHIPP

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
MATTHEW QUICK

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me i...
MATTHEW QUICK

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
MATTHEW DESMOND

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, '...
MATTHEW LILLARD

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,...
MATTHEW SETTLE

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.
MATTHEW MCGRORY

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
MATTHEW DESMOND

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra...
MATTHEW SCULLY

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ...
MATTHEW MACFADYEN

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t...
MATTHEW STEWART

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
MATTHEW ASHFORD

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lay...
MATTHEW PRIOR

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno...
MATTHEW QUICK

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...
MATTHEW LEWIS

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
MATTHEW BOULTON

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
MATTHEW DICKS

Dare to Differ
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ...
MATTHEW SCULLY

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making...
MATTHEW FOX

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
MATTHEW PRIOR

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
MATTHEW PRIOR

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR

One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how...
MATTHEW FOX

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
MATTHEW PRIOR

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
MATTHEW PRIOR

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The ends must justify the means.
MATTHEW PRIOR

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
MATTHEW FOX

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
MATTHEW GREEN

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches

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I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches

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