Lois Mowday Rabey quote: "In the middle of deep emotional pain, immorality can be rationalized and appear justified because our vision is blurred. We are viewing through the eyes of one focused on relief, not on the Lord."

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
LOIS WYSE

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do b...
LOIS WYSE

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ

If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the ...
LOIS GREENFIELD

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and '...
LOIS LOWRY

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...
LOIS LOWRY

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
LOIS LOWRY

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
LOIS LOWRY

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overco...
GEORGE LOIS

Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs
LOIS WYSE

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to inc...
LOIS CAPPS

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic m...
LOIS CAPPS

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy e...
LOIS CAPPS

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable an...
LOIS CAPPS

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first l...
LOIS CAPPS

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore ...
LOIS GREENFIELD

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don...
LOIS LOWRY

The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's move...
LOIS GREENFIELD

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should be...
GEORGE LOIS

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
LOIS LOWRY

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative direct...
GEORGE LOIS

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I enc...
LOIS LOWRY

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
LOIS LOWRY

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and b...
LOIS LOWRY

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe tha...
GEORGE LOIS

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and suck...
LOIS TILTON

People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is d...
LOIS LOWRY

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, an...
LOIS CAPPS

Whatever the creative industry, when you're confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Bi...
GEORGE LOIS

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designe...
GEORGE LOIS

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep...
GEORGE LOIS

But there was nothing left to do but continue
LOIS LOWRY

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care abou...
GEORGE LOIS

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where the...
LOIS LOWRY

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had aut...
LOIS LOWRY

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty o...
LOIS CAPPS

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
LOIS CAPPS

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but th...
LOIS LOWRY

Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, the...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We n...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read and se...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be a...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

HEAP is a great program, providing much needed assistance to thousands of New Yorkers every year. Ou...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.
LOIS ARONSTEIN

When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.
LOIS ARONSTEIN

AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping t...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a diffe...
LOIS ARONSTEIN

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu...
GEORGE LOIS

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of el...
LOIS LOWRY

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, c...
LOIS LOWRY

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how w...
LOIS LOWRY

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
LOIS LOWRY

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes ...
LOIS LOWRY

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
LOIS LOWRY

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
LOIS LOWRY

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to f...
LOIS LOWRY

He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not n...
LOIS LOWRY

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought ther...
LOIS LOWRY

You may lie.
LOIS LOWRY

Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ...
LOIS LOWRY

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide...
LOIS LOWRY

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color...
LOIS LOWRY

Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there m...
LOIS LOWRY

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
LOIS LOWRY

Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could...
LOIS LOWRY

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in hast...
LOIS LOWRY

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which...
LOIS LOWRY

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he wa...
LOIS LOWRY

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...
LOIS LOWRY

I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, re...
LOIS LOWRY

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
LOIS LOWRY

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
LOIS LOWRY

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him...
LOIS LOWRY

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are f...
LOIS LOWRY

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
LOIS LOWRY

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
LOIS WYSE

a good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a...
LOIS WYSE

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied bei...
LOIS LOWRY

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They bl...
GEORGE LOIS

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school...
LOIS CAPPS

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where...
LOIS LOWRY

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after a...
LOIS LOWRY

I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creati...
LOIS GREENFIELD

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own ...
LOIS CAPPS

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Adv...
GEORGE LOIS

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make ...
LOIS LOWRY

We had a lawful election. We've had a certification of that election, and the only way that the Bush...
LOIS FRANKEL

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in v...
LOIS CAPPS

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas
LOIS WYSE

For the friends life has given me,and for the life friends have given me.
LOIS WYSE

When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you ...
GEORGE LOIS

All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication cours...
GEORGE LOIS

What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, o...
LOIS GREENFIELD

I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it ...
GEORGE LOIS

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or ...
GEORGE LOIS

The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of streng...
LOIS WYSE

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity i...
LOIS WYSE

Ask the American public if they want a wiretap and they'll say 'No.' If you ask them do they want a ...
LOIS FREEH

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
LOIS LOWRY

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.
GEORGE LOIS

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
LOIS LOWRY

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
LOIS CAPPS

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. The...
LOIS LOWRY

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
LOIS CAPPS

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
LOIS LOWRY

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
LOIS LOWRY

This is a very significant threat to patients' rights in the United States. We need to protect the p...
LOIS UTTLEY

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
GEORGE LOIS

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him fro...
LOIS LOWRY

He was bitten by the bead bug.
LOIS BONDY

I would really like to know what the psyche is of a person who litters.
LOIS BROBST

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overco...
GEORGE LOIS

I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my ...
LOIS TILTON

That means everything you can stuff in a brown grocery bag for $5. If you're a good packer, you coul...
LOIS SPENCE

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel'...
LOIS CAPPS

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he doe...
GEORGE LOIS

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye ...
LOIS GREENFIELD

It was a very inhumane bill.
LOIS NELSON

In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who ...
LOIS GREIMAN

It is a double standard, it is extremely dangerous and it is immoral.
LOIS GIBBS

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...
LOIS LOWRY

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.
LOIS PERRIN

Four
LOIS LOWRY

Memory is the happiness of being alone.
LOIS LOWRY

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance fo...
LOIS CAPPS

As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it i...
LOIS CAPPS

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
LOIS LOWRY

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
LOIS LOWRY

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
LOIS LOWRY

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certai...
LOIS LOWRY

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids ...
LOIS LOWRY

So she's given marginal resources, and she multiplies it, ... She begs and borrows and depends on a ...
LOIS FRANKEL

Just because it doesn't smell doesn't mean it isn't spoiled. Potentially hazardous things like groun...
LOIS ILLICK

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army b...
LOIS LOWRY

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and ...
LOIS CAPPS

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
LOIS LOWRY

When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from ...
GEORGE LOIS

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could hap...
LOIS LOWRY

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...
LOIS LOWRY

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most vale...
LOIS LOWRY

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity a...
LOIS CAPPS

I don't know why I pick up other people's trash. I guess those of us who do have more respect for ou...
LOIS BROBST

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn'...
LOIS LOWRY

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place ...
LOIS LOWRY

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, ...
GEORGE LOIS

I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.
LOIS GREENFIELD

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
LOIS LOWRY

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scient...
GEORGE LOIS

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a...
LOIS LOWRY

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ...
LOIS LOWRY

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have...
LOIS LOWRY

Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
LOIS LOWRY

We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to.

We come into this world o...
LOIS LOWRY

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can...
LOIS LOWRY

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
LOIS LOWRY

I've had the unique opportunity to really get to know the boys, and they really are the most fantast...
LOIS ALVERSON

One thing I really enjoy is that the atmosphere is a nice getaway. It's calm. Our store is more of a...
LOIS BONDY

What they're trying to do is establish some training sites around the state. This will be wonderful ...
LOIS BOLLENBACK

The bottom line message is we're committed to continuing service.
LOIS BOLLENBACK

We're very, very motivated to make sure we continue to bargain in the best way that we can and to ma...
LOIS BOLLENBACK

We have 10 seniors, and they know to just keep plugging at it and working. They had opportunities in...
LOIS CRYDER

When Cesar gets on a roll, he adds a lot to our team.
LOIS CRYDER

Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely cri...
LOIS CAPPS

This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita ...
LOIS CAPPS

Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.
LOIS CAPPS

All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging mo...
LOIS CAPPS

I am concerned about it with so many endangered species right in the Santa Barbara County area,
LOIS CAPPS

The problem is, the Endangered Species Act does need to be modernized, ... but the people in charge ...
LOIS CAPPS

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,
LOIS CAPPS

The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live,
LOIS CAPPS

I think some people just don't see it. Get the kids riding down the road to notice the trash outside...
LOIS BROBST

It's the easiest and fastest way to get rid of my garbage.
LOIS BROBST

Unfortunately, it's all the people that don't litter [that pick it up]. The men get much more angry ...
LOIS BROBST

Those kids need love. That's what they're missing.
LOIS BORUSEWICZ

You have to be there for them. Your child looks for you to be there.
LOIS BORUSEWICZ

Children need a lot of parental care.
LOIS BORUSEWICZ

One day I'm a prostitute and the next day I'm a nun. Where else could you get instant conversion lik...
LOIS BOOTSIN

We've met lots of friends since we've been walking. ? You look forward to just meeting them every da...
LOIS BOONE

I tried to maybe cut it back to six days instead of seven, and when I feel guilty I do seven days.
LOIS BOONE

I just felt like I needed a starting place and this was it.
LOIS BOONE

There is no conclusive evidence to show that there's any difference in the nutrient value. And when ...
LOIS FERGUSON

I think women are gardeners from Day One.
LOIS FERGUSON

The series will capture the drama and excitement of the fast-paced world of Rolling Stone . Rolling ...
LOIS CURREN

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what's going on. Just look out the window, ... Ther...
LOIS FRANKEL

Let's take our energy. We're going to fix those machines, we're going to register those voters, we a...
LOIS FRANKEL

I think everyone is going to be very proud of these projects, ... I believe that the citizens will e...
LOIS FRANKEL

would know what to respond to.
LOIS FRANKEL

our revenues are very, very healthy.
LOIS FRANKEL

Right now, the city, we're calm, we're under control, we're ready to go,
LOIS FRANKEL

Once any deal is reached, get it in writing, ... Most important, leave the negotiation without hard ...
LOIS FRANKEL

We're faster. We don't have as much power, but we have more speed. I'm hoping we can use that.
LOIS FYFE

In the middle of deep emotional pain, immorality can be rationalized and appear justified because our vision is blurred. We are viewing through the eyes of one focused on relief, not on the Lord.

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In the middle of deep emotional pain, immorality can be rationalized and appear justified because our vision is blurred. We are viewing through the eyes of one focused on relief, not on the Lord.

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