Emery Lord quote: "My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. Jonah Daniels has his own grief, but he doesn't understand what it feels like to waste away in a castle dungeon where you have been chained to crumbling walls. And, when the dragons close in, you only think: Good. Let this be over."

But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm ...
EMERY LORD

Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have me...
EMERY LORD

Summer crushes happen all the time, right? Because you feel far away from the real world, everything...
EMERY LORD

I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions li...
EMERY LORD

I know it's difficult to bare your heart, but it's the least stupid thing in the world.
EMERY LORD

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and str...
EMERY ALLEN

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
STEWART EMERY

They played well at home and their goaltender had a good game.
BOB EMERY

What's good is that we still control our destiny in the conference. It's up to us to get the job don...
BOB EMERY

It will be good to have some time off. We played three games in five days and we have a few bumps an...
BOB EMERY

It was a frustrating game in a frustrating year.
BOB EMERY

We had a two-goal lead and they scored kind of a crappy goal. And, it gave them a lot of momentum.
BOB EMERY

We've got to preserve a two-goal lead.
BOB EMERY

We did a great job on the penalty kill and your goaltender is your best penalty killer.
BOB EMERY

We did a good job getting the puck to the net while skating 5-on-5. We also proved that we are a wel...
BOB EMERY

We were able to get some goal scoring tonight. We drove to the net well.
BOB EMERY

We were never able to get that all-important three-goal lead and knock the wind out of their sails. ...
BOB EMERY

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your woun...
EMERY ALLEN

This kind of evaluation is in some ways a more objective way of measuring the body's response to pai...
CHARLES EMERY

I think the most important point of this preliminary study is that obese individuals may have a lowe...
CHARLES EMERY

Last summer we cut a check to Waterville for $4,000, ... We'll cut checks from the drug forfeiture a...
JOHN EMERY

No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was.
RAY EMERY

With the new rules, it's cool, I get a chance to look up and see if a guy is available for a stretch...
RAY EMERY

Starting out, you just want to make a good impression and play your best,
RAY EMERY

It's cool to say that you have an NHL record and it's something that I'll remember.
RAY EMERY

I think he was a little surprised the puck came right out to him. He had to take a step back before ...
RAY EMERY

Unless we get a full and complete explanation from the governor and we are assured that he has thoro...
DAVID EMERY

All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repea...
DAVID EMERY

This is important because if an obese person begins an exercise program, he may not cognitively expe...
CHARLES EMERY

The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain.
CHARLES EMERY

... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and o...
EMERY LEE

I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re fr...
EMERY ALLEN

(Hume) had opportunities to close out the first set. But he stayed on task. It's not always too easy...
DENNIS EMERY

The interview is an intimate conversation between journalist and politician wherein the journalist s...
EMERY KLEIN

Exercise increases circulation and helps regulate the immune system and hormones that influence the ...
CHARLES EMERY

We did skate four lines and six defensemen and hopefully that will pay off for us tomorrow.
BOB EMERY

We came out tonight with a lot better emotion and played the body a lot better.
BOB EMERY

We had two breakaways and missed on both of them. They had one breakaway and scored.
BOB EMERY

Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how t...
CHARLES EMERY

Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less ...
CHARLES EMERY

For subjective indicators of pain, obese people indicated similar levels of pain to non-obese people...
CHARLES EMERY

The findings from both studies indicate that the effect of exercise we found in the current study tr...
CHARLES EMERY

This is the first time we've been able to document this kind of enhancement associated with exercise...
CHARLES EMERY

All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repea...
DAVID EMERY

Imagination is essential to reality
CHAD EMERY

The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain. Additionally, our tests showed both grou...
CHARLES EMERY

This baroque dichotomy between their sublime aspirations of judicial excellence and the ridiculous r...
RICHARD EMERY

The Oneida Nation remains strongly opposed to out-of-state tribal casinos. These out-of-state tribes...
MARK EMERY

Illinois is an excellent team with a chance to win the national championship. They simply overpowere...
DENNIS EMERY

It's really hard to sneak a win in against teams like Florida or Illinois because they are just real...
DENNIS EMERY

It's just hard for us playing a really solid team like an Illinois.
DENNIS EMERY

Florida is just a solid veteran team that was ranked No. 1 earlier this year. We dug ourselves a hol...
DENNIS EMERY

I am pleased with how the team fought back.
DENNIS EMERY

I'm always surprised at how close these matches are and how thin the winning and losing margin is.
DENNIS EMERY

I thought the team played really well. (But) I was really disappointed in our doubles play today.
DENNIS EMERY

I think they'll do it, or we'll flounder.
DENNIS EMERY

They (the Eagles) knew where I was going to be on the floor on every play. I couldn't get going.
EMERY WALLACE

It obviously wasn't my best game.
EMERY WALLACE

They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That w...
EMERY WALLACE

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.
EMERY WALLACE

It came down to hustle and heart for us. At halftime, I knew I had to come out and be a leader for u...
EMERY WALLACE

I'm just trying to be that senior leader. I've been here three years now. I know what it takes. Just...
EMERY WALLACE

I came out harder than ever. I told myself it's not going to happen again. I stayed focused on the g...
EMERY WALLACE

It's not the exact same date, but it's the same team, same Friday, same championship.
EMERY WALLACE

Five years ago, there probably wasn't a tech CEO worrying about patents. But, as these people [troll...
EMERY SIMON

Hundreds of patent infringement cases are pending against computer software and hardware manufacture...
EMERY SIMON

For us, the litigation issue is really a risk assessment issue, and the fact that an injunction is a...
EMERY SIMON

We think that you need to look at that bigger picture; we think you need to look at the full range o...
EMERY SIMON

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive...
EMERY SIMON

The support of our industry for this legislation should not be taken for granted.
EMERY SIMON

That's clearly an important thing for us. The Chinese government is a major customer of software. We...
EMERY SIMON

There is no question that the exploitation of works will increasingly be through the creation of dig...
EMERY SIMON

Heading into Turin our athletes are legitimate medals contenders for five to seven medals. That puts...
EMERY HOLMIK

The opening ceremonies are a tiring enough process. If you add all the demands of being flag-bearer ...
EMERY HOLMIK

There are also many extra demands placed on the flag-bearer that potentially take away from the prep...
EMERY HOLMIK

A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best perf...
EMERY HOLMIK

Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come int...
EMERY ALLEN

He is selling out an exemplary Canadian citizen to appease their war on drugs.
MARC EMERY

[He also alleges that those people are now being sent letters by drug enforcement authorities in a s...
MARC EMERY

His intent is to stop the extradition and have me charged under Canadian law in a Canadian courtroom...
MARC EMERY

I'm disappointed that [the Marijuana Party] is, in fact, running candidates. Unfortunately, they're ...
MARC EMERY

I'd much rather be in front of a Canadian jury in a Canadian court. It'd probably still keep me out ...
MARC EMERY

a Nazi-like military organization.
MARC EMERY

in the business of putting the marijuana culture away in prisons for a long time. As the leader of t...
MARC EMERY

There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who...
EMERY ALLEN

People have seemed really excited. It was a great first day.
KATHY EMERY

I'm so pleased. I think things went really well. We were staffed to handle the rush.
KATHY EMERY

He was here when we got here. He said he wanted to be our first customer.
KATHY EMERY

We are expecting to be really busy, but we will have plenty of people here to take care of customers...
KATHY EMERY

We are ready. We are all in here now cleaning and getting everything set up.
KATHY EMERY

It's exciting. More importantly the team is doing well and hopefully I've done enough to stick aroun...
RAY EMERY

It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of st...
EMERY ALEXANDER STORRS

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be be...
JULIE ANN EMERY

Experience is confidence.
DANIEL A EMERY

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON

Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON

We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON

Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON

And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY

How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD

God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

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