It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.
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Related There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's ... JOHN GLOVER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL This was a key match for us because the kids need to realize that this is a team, that they can stil... DIANE TULLER I think we were playing a little too relaxed ... that was kind of a wake-up call for us letting us k... APRIL MCCLENDON To get a really good game you have to have two (teams) playing, sometimes teams are very compact and... GIANFRANCO ZOLA For us to compete with teams like that we have to play a near-perfect game, and of course we didn't ... DAN BOYD We've got to understand that when teams like Saint Martin's play against us this is the biggest game... FRANK OSTANIK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM When you have a big game, the tendency is to have a down game the next day. We were really afraid th... ANDY GENTRY You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU That's always the mindset for us going into every game. Everyone knows they have to stop the run aga... CALVIN MAGEE Milan has more experience than us and that's important. It's also true that they have won more title... CARLES PUYOL To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddi... PATRICK SWAYZE I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter... AUDRE LORDE They were cheering for us because they would rather play us than Oklahoma. But sometimes you have to... ADRIAN TIGERT My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams... JERRY FERRARA (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our win against Ocean Springs was huge for us because it gave us home-field advantage, and we put a ... JOE HARTFIELD Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the atte... BUD GRANT Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty... ALAN ANDERSON Coach was saying to make sure that we play hard because he's going to get us in and out of there, an... ISAIAH FOX We just want to play basketball. We can play whatever game you want to play. I would love to see a s... CHARLES MCDONALD Fort Scott is so quick that when you go inside, you have to put the shot up quick. They want you to ... BECKY CARLSON There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all thes... JOHN GLOVER (Ballard) is a team that can make us better later on by playing against it. We can use this game to ... CARY THOMPSON We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective... LARRY HALE It was a very good game for our program. To play a team like that who has only one loss on the year ... DALE NEIBAUER You can't simulate that; there's no way to prepare for them. The bottom line for us is that there is... ERIC RAMEY Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we ha... MARLEE MATLIN A lot of teams out there have these great records, but who did they play? We played those teams with... JOEY AVILA When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL For us, we have no problem with signing a player who can't play with Madrid. It all depends how much... JOAN LAPORTA Our goal is to win a state title. We're playing teams in higher classifications to get ready for the... JEF FLOURNOY Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and th... GERMAINE GREER I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat... NOLAN NORTH For us this was very big because everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They thought of the other tea... FREDERICH CEPEDA I don't know if we think it's going to be an easy schedule when we are playing teams like Columbus a... CHRIS MASON It was a successful trip for us to go against southern teams who have a few more games than us. We p... BRIAN GRUBER When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many... SIMON BAKER We struggle against teams that press us, as well as teams that play a zone and it just so happens th... DUSTIN SALISBERY Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the... JONI ERNST Golden West has a good program and when you are playing good teams you have to play good defense and... JODY ALLEN They elevate our game to another level. They're quicker, faster, they can jump higher. So that means... CAPPIE PONDEXTER We don't come out and play the entire game with intensity and with energy. And now it's coming back ... CHARLIE BELL Our goal is to hold teams down rather than score more points than they do. The kids played really ha... ERIC RASMUSSEN When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-t... JANE MCGONIGAL It was just a lot of little things. A rebound there, a steal here, a missed shot there. You know, pl... BRIAN VOYLES If some of those easy ones go in early, it could have been a different game. But the bottom line is ... GREG WAITS We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not a... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... JOYCE MEYER We have to engage the world because for us we're either playing globally or not playing at all. IRWIN JACOBS An uneven playing surface will affect us more than them. They play more of a more direct, aerial gam... XABI ALONSO We have to stop thinking that somebody is going to help us ... make it attractive for the bank to fi... AUBYN HILL I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play '... MARC LAIDLAW People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs ... DOMINIC MONAGHAN May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You ... LUPE FIASCO When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It'... DUFFY DAUGHERTY Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL Playing at home under the lights definitely establishes a rhythm for us because when we're on the ro... JULIE ORLOWSKI How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! L... JANE WELSH CARLYLE The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think... EDEN HAZARD We're trying to make it easier for them so they don't have to juggle three different standards when ... COLLEEN TUNNEY It doesn't matter who we play. You have to play them all to get there. San Jose, when they play at S... FERNANDO CLAVIJO We didn't play well and I hope it's a wake-up call for this next game because it's going to be a tou... GARY REYNOLDS Lionel Messi is awesome. ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC It's the hand that's dealt us and they have to play us too, so it's a two-way street whether or not ... BILL CLEARY To us, the home game is something we'd like to see. If we wanted the buyout, we would have asked for... DAWN ROGERS I feel like the defense really stepped up for us. They played a good game like they always do. We ha... AMANDA HARDING Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, ra... CHRIS ROBINSON If you like offensive basketball, it was a good game to watch. I wasn't sure either one of us wanted... JOE KATICH Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put... MARLEE MATLIN Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come... EMMYLOU HARRIS Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for ... RON HOWARD We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons,... STEVE YZERMAN It was a good game for us to get everyone into the game and play them in different positions. We hav... TIM HASKINS Sunday games are always a struggle for us, but luckily Wisconsin is playing on Thursday, which is th... EMILY FRANCIS They always come ready to play and they gave us a tough time over there. It's a rivalry game, so we ... JOE BLINE We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ... SAMUEL BUTLER When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to... GARETH BALE (Rice's) conditioning really has been a measuring stick for everybody in this league, ... It is so e... NEW YORK GIANTS With Anthony's running, it helps me so much. It's tough to defend us. A lot of our passing is play-a... CHRIS UHRIG Advocating for your child is not always an easy road. It is a very worthwhile one. And [when] you st... DIANE E. INBODY Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get... CAROLINE KNAPP We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for som... ALLISON ROBERTSON When you get to a game like this, it's who's playing, who's on a roll. The teams are close enough th... LOUIE GOLDEN This is a new beginning for us, ... We've been very happy with the people we were able to acquire. T... DALE TALLON There is more that unites us than divides us. So make it a point to talk with someone who is differe... JOHNNY CORN We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University... DAN ABDALLA There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different... PATTY JENKINS Any team we play, you might as well throw their record out of the window because they're not going t... DEMARCUS NELSON The game has changed a lot. The game is faster than when I started coaching. A lot of teams didn't p... HOWARD BETH I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium,... RORY MCILROY They have been tremendous this year for us. Their confidence level is extremely high, and as they co... CRAIG BREHON A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us... MORLEY SAFER Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match bec... SIMON SINEK We didn't play revenge. We played to get a lead in the conference championship race. If (Conley) win... JAMES RANKINS Sometimes you have to go to-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. I would have liked one mo... GREGG DOWNER
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There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. LIONEL MESSI In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. LIONEL MESSI Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin... LIONEL MESSI I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr... LIONEL MESSI You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. LIONEL MESSI Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift. LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm... LIONEL MESSI There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ... LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ... LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ... LIONEL MESSI I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic... LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li... LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg... LIONEL MESSI For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children acr... LIONEL MESSI Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there a... LIONEL MESSI I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone el... LIONEL MESSI You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen. LIONEL MESSI You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I belie... LIONEL MESSI Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importa... LIONEL MESSI The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favou... LIONEL MESSI We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last s... LIONEL MESSI Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support ... LIONEL MESSI On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of... LIONEL MESSI It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to hav... LIONEL MESSI I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. ... LIONEL MESSI When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary. LIONEL MESSI It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else. LIONEL MESSI What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. LIONEL MESSI Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every w... LIONEL MESSI I want to avoid comparisons because for me there has never been anyone quite like him. LIONEL MESSI We can't be overconfident. It happened to us when we were leading 2-1 in last year's game. Chelsea h... LIONEL MESSI This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories. LIONEL MESSI My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I'... LIONEL BLUE Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned ... LIONEL BLUE Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. LIONEL BLUE Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. LIONEL TRILLING Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him... LIONEL TRILLING I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been... LIONEL BLUE Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. LIONEL BLUE Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th... LIONEL TRILLING I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sex... LIONEL BLUE One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. LIONEL STRACHEY Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve... LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. LIONEL TRILLING Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. LIONEL TRILLING A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. LIONEL STRACHEY We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b... LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte... LIONEL TRILLING The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit... LIONEL TRILLING Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss... LIONEL TRILLING A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed re... LIONEL SHRIVER Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader LIONEL TRILLING I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its to... LIONEL SHRIVER We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut... LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti... LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra... LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re... LIONEL BARBER Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. LIONEL HAMPTON The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n... LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond... LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it... LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ... LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. LIONEL JOSPIN You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li... LIONEL RICHIE They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas... LIONEL SHRIVER I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag... LIONEL SUGGS I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co... LIONEL SHRIVER My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t... LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... LIONEL TRILLING My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher... LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed. LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera... LIONEL TRILLING I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn... LIONEL BLUE Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. LIONEL HAMPTON Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. LIONEL BLUE A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whet... LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many? LIONEL SUGGS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism. LIONEL BARBER Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. Howeve... LIONEL SUGGS I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. LIONEL HAMPTON Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. LIONEL HAMPTON For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attain... LIONEL BLUE The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dul... LIONEL JOHNSON Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ... LIONEL ANDERSON Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, ... LIONEL ANDERSON We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. The ... LIONEL ANDERSON I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about... LIONEL ANDERSON This is our business. It is what we do. LIONEL ANDERSON The last two years it has been working for us. LIONEL ANDERSON Business is very good right now. LIONEL ANDERSON I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensivel... LIONEL ANDERSON We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-s... LIONEL ANDERSON There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'D... LIONEL BARBER I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I ... LIONEL BLUE Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gather... LIONEL BARBER Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in... LIONEL RICHIE It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were ... LIONEL BLUE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and t... LIONEL RICHIE All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. LIONEL RICHIE Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him... LIONEL TRILLING At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincer... LIONEL BLUE Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament p... LIONEL BLUE Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'... LIONEL SOSA Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life wi... LIONEL SHRIVER The existence of other people is essentially awkward. LIONEL SHRIVER Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.... LIONEL SHRIVER I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't alway... LIONEL SHRIVER The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. LIONEL SHRIVER I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which ... LIONEL SHRIVER Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. LIONEL SHRIVER In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainl... LIONEL SHRIVER ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have... LIONEL SHRIVER Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole... LIONEL SHRIVER I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I ... LIONEL HAMPTON [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's... LIONEL HAMPTON For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew thi... LIONEL BLUE My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in busin... LIONEL BARBER Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion... LIONEL BLUE We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and ... LIONEL JOSPIN I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France. LIONEL JOSPIN Inhuman and barbaric acts were carried out by both sides, even if each side tended for too long to d... LIONEL JOSPIN an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image. LIONEL JOSPIN We must lead in a different way, ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction an... LIONEL JOSPIN No senior official -- neither the interior minister, nor the defense or justice ministers, nor the p... LIONEL JOSPIN I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt wi... LIONEL SHRIVER Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't? LIONEL SHRIVER Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But i... LIONEL RICHIE In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for... LIONEL BARBER The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came ... LIONEL RICHIE Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physic... LIONEL BLUE For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main pur... LIONEL BARBER The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materia... LIONEL BLUE You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of... LIONEL SHRIVER The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do. LIONEL HAMPTON We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which... LIONEL SOSA Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. LIONEL BARRYMORE Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. LIONEL BARRYMORE I've got a lot of ham in me. LIONEL BARRYMORE I believe that we are missing a great opportunity. We as Republicans are not really emphasizing what... LIONEL SOSA We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b... LIONEL TRILLING The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte... LIONEL TRILLING Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. LIONEL TRILLING The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse... LIONEL TRILLING Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect... LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. LIONEL TRILLING I've always been crazy about playing. LIONEL HAMPTON That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in ... LIONEL HAMPTON Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating. LIONEL HAMPTON Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. LIONEL KAUFFMAN Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men. LIONEL HAMPTON Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood LIONEL TRILLING This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century... LIONEL BARRYMORE I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best. LIONEL ABEL Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, pos... LIONEL TRILLING To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is ... LIONEL BARRYMORE But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon. LIONEL SHRIVER Omnipotence is a status that is fragile at best. By its very own standard meaning of unlimited power... LIONEL SUGGS He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi... LIONEL SHRIVER People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o... LIONEL SUGGS Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an... LIONEL SHRIVER People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it. LIONEL SUGGS Beware of what "everybody says". LIONEL SHRIVER To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teen... LIONEL BLUE I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ... LIONEL SUGGS Discomfort begets discomfort in others. LIONEL SHRIVER Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m... LIONEL SUGGS Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage... LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic... LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. LIONEL SHRIVER I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. LIONEL BARRYMORE That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. LIONEL SHRIVER consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective... LIONEL TRILLING People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. LIONEL SHRIVER It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief LIONEL TRILLING I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso... LIONEL SOSA When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders... LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha... LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason... LIONEL SUGGS I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in... LIONEL RICHIE My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry. LIONEL RICHIE The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei... LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s... LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was... LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i... LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'... LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt... LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t... LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi... LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I... LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b... LIONEL BLUE