Lewis H. Lapham quote: "The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den."

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can emp...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversa...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leade...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

The supply of government exceeds demand.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his own...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clo...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the ...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnan...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a galle...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money ...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hir...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocenc...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow b...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not r...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an ...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviousl...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, d...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to th...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quit...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM

The student where the weapon originated has been suspended. I don't know about the other student who...
WENDY LAPHAM

It was taboo back then. Now it's bigger is better.
DAVE LAPHAM

Some guys weighing 300 pounds, it's like putting a Cadillac on a Volkswagen frame. That's where you'...
DAVE LAPHAM

It's our policy to keep the parents in the loop.
WENDY LAPHAM

This incident is something that doesn't just happen at Stubbs. It could happen at any other school.
WENDY LAPHAM

You are not my dream girl.

You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. An...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, t...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire.

Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a ...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

If you and I spend our seasons together we would find that our dreams and fantasies of happily-ever-...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I like the feeling of hunger for it reminds me of all those hundreds of months without you.
WAYLON H. LEWIS

I would like to do many things before we should ever call this anything. For when we touch the earth...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

The new version has page previewing known as WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig, for What You See Is What...
PETER H. LEWIS

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.
WAYLON H. LEWIS

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO

Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Important things are not things.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Respect, don't suspect.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa...
H. JANICKI

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
H. POWERS

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le...
H MATHEWS

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
H. STEIN

The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
H. OGILVIE

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.
H. BERGH

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the ...
TRIPLE H

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
H. MATHEWS

Money is the grease that lubricates the engine of life. Too much won't take you further, but with to...
H ROSANO

The most boring and fruitless conversations are those where they all agree with you
H ROSANO

A book understood fits into one page
H ROSANO

what separates humans from animals is the ability to think beyond basic instincts. And yet, some ref...
H ROSANO

Corporate finance is more about cosmetics than it is to fitness
H ROSANO

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 C...
TRIPLE H

It kills me to know that to save your soul, i must break your heart.
H WEISS

Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go...
ALFA H

I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of m...
ALFA H

They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear,...
ALFA H

However this life is unbalanced
MARK H

Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me.
H. MIDORIKAWA

Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that tak...
ALFA H

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
H. BARBUSSE

The reward of a teacher is the smiles of today and yesterday, the grateful hearts of those young sou...
H GREYLING

I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance ...
ALFA H

How to raise sons who respect women:
Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect your...
ALFA H

So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d alw...
H. ALAZHAR

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.
H. HEIMLICH

Globalization making all economics behave like a flock of birds
H ROSANO

Breathe to clear the mind and body too of impulsiveness.
BATHILDA H.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.
ALFA H

I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It ju...
ALFA H

I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner.
ALFA H

She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.
ALFA H

I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes.
TRIPLE H

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters an...
TRIPLE H

I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told...
ALFA H

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to,...
TRIPLE H

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
H. SCHACHTEL

How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
ALFA H

I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applau...
ALFA H

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
ALFA H

Aspire to never have a boss.
H. MURRAY

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.
H. MORTARA

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
LEONA LEWIS

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surround...
LEONA LEWIS

One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. Thi...
LEWIS HOWES

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.
LEONA LEWIS

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
LEWIS HOWES

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
JULIETTE LEWIS

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ...
RAY LEWIS

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
LEONA LEWIS

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
RAY LEWIS

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier t...
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasa...
MERIWETHER LEWIS

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl...
JOHN LEWIS

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
LEWIS CARROLL

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
LEWIS CARROLL

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a ...
LENNOX LEWIS

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWIS

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'...
AL LEWIS

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's th...
AL LEWIS

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fai...
AL LEWIS

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWIS

We work it out like that so we both have more involvement in it. He knows the aspect of the defense ...
AL LEWIS

They're very tight. They're excited to play together. It's like a little family we have here.
AL LEWIS

She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a ...
AL LEWIS

One of the best things you can do in a situation like this is to show them a lot of kindness. They a...
AL LEWIS

It's too nebulous. You can't understand anything. They keep saying, 'It's coming; it's coming.' It i...
AL LEWIS

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
LEWIS TAPPAN

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
LEWIS CARROLL

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro...
LEWIS BLACK

Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines and should not be based on a calendar ...
LEWIS HOWES

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, bla...
LEWIS THOMAS

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argu...
LEWIS THOMAS

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
LEWIS HINE

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o...
CARL LEWIS

If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
LENNOX LEWIS

As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the...
LEWIS HOWES

Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating criti...
LEWIS HOWES

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS

As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for op...
LEWIS HOWES

As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren&...
LEWIS HOWES

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the C...
MERIWETHER LEWIS

I'm out there most every night, ... My work schedule, of course, is pretty rigid, but every moment I...
ALAN LEWIS

We need to do a better job of treating our residents.
ALAN LEWIS

This building size should capture a segment of the market that we feel is active and has not been pr...
ALAN LEWIS

Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?
ALAN LEWIS

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been ...
DAMIAN LEWIS

You just have to take control of your own performance.
DAMIAN LEWIS

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
DAMIAN LEWIS

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to su...
DAMIAN LEWIS

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into y...
DAMIAN LEWIS

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words...
DAMIAN LEWIS

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the direc...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articul...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I love playing sport.
DAMIAN LEWIS

You have to go where the good writing is.
DAMIAN LEWIS

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
DAMIAN LEWIS

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
DAMIAN LEWIS

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y...
DAMIAN LEWIS

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still you...
DAMIAN LEWIS

I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
DAMIAN LEWIS

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
DAMIAN LEWIS

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

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Lewis H. Lapham

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

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