Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones
book eye flames
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
breeze fresh huge raising
Let there be a fresh breeze of new honesty, new idealism, new integrity. You have typewriters, presses and a huge audience. How about raising hell?
closing downhill instead knew tried
It's been going downhill instead of uphill, ... We think it's the location. If we knew the answer, I'd probably not be closing it. We tried everything we could.
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A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.
boxing four life months since totally trouble turned
He used to get in some trouble at school. But since he started boxing four months ago, he's totally turned his life around.
caught dominated fight hook left round second shook
He got careless, got caught with a left hook and went down in the second round but shook that off and dominated the fight from there.
tried vastly
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.
attitude hard trained type
He said, 'Coach, I've trained too hard to lose.' To have that type of attitude is amazing.
fail infinitely men
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
fails failure infinitely man tries
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
home loss imagination
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
memories moving writing
I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.
dream dies
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.