Anthony Lewis quote: "The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason."

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

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and fre...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
ANTHONY LEWIS

We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped ...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I really don't have an answer. Sometimes, our heads are not in the game. You have a blowout against ...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I like the head coaches at all of these programsÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬Ãƒ�...
ANTHONY LEWIS

We defended him as hard as we could; but he made a lot of tough shots in the paint against us.
ANTHONY LEWIS

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citize...
ANTHONY LEWIS

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
ANTHONY LEWIS

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats ...
ANTHONY LEWIS

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make gh...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I like the head coaches at all of these programsâ€¦that's one of the main reasons they're my top...
ANTHONY LEWIS

It's all changing and getting better all the time. I'd like to think the red, black and white logo t...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I really can't explain it, but I'm proud of the way we fought and I just hate to see it end like thi...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Bond was something we knew about but never got to see. We wanted to watch but we were too young.
ANTHONY LEWIS

Oklahoma State's program is similar to my high school in the sense that we're both rebuilding as pro...
ANTHONY LEWIS

I like the head coaches at all of these programs…that's one of the main reasons they're my top fou...
ANTHONY LEWIS

We were on the third floor of an apartment building, no food, no water, no nothing. Bodies floating ...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
ANTHONY LEWIS

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish trut...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its...
ANTHONY LEWIS

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

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

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ...
DAMIAN LEWIS

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS

Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS

I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS

Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
LEWIS GRIZZARD

I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
JULIETTE LEWIS

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it'...
LEWIS BLACK

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of ho...
ALAN LEWIS

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS

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

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

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
JAMAL LEWIS

I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.
JAMAL LEWIS

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
LEWIS THOMAS

My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
JULIETTE LEWIS

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C.S. LEWIS

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...
LEWIS GRIZZARD

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
LEWIS GRIZZARD

When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be...
TERENCE LEWIS

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repai...
MERIWETHER LEWIS

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...
C.S. LEWIS

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. LEWIS

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

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think y...
AL LEWIS

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some d...
C.S. LEWIS

I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me...
AARON LEWIS

We're definitely excited to be playing the Jager tour. It's a huge deal for serious hard rock fans a...
AARON LEWIS

It's awesome. It's like an amusement park.
AARON LEWIS

Our thoughts and prayers are with Brad, and we send our best wishes to him for a speedy and complete...
AARON LEWIS

I can't wait to tee off against our fans. It can be tough to connect with our fans on the road and I...
AARON LEWIS

Sometimes people are just passing through, maybe from northern Ohio, they're just passing through, t...
AARON LEWIS

So many people have pumpkins, you can go to every grocery store in the county, some gas stations, fa...
AARON LEWIS

No, they're really good,
AARON LEWIS

I can see through youSee your true colors'Cause inside you're uglyYou're ugly like me.
AARON LEWIS

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
LEWIS MUMFORD

What advise to you offer to those who are awakened?

If you have awakened I offer no advis...
LELAND LEWIS

I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces
C.S. LEWIS

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of ...
C.S. LEWIS

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...
C.S. LEWIS

Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.
LEONA LEWIS

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed...
LEWIS MUMFORD

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, ...
LEWIS MUMFORD

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette...
C.S. LEWIS

Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that ...
C.S. LEWIS

We turn first ter the bleedin' parallel quotations from Massinger and Shakespeare collocated by Guvn...
C.S. LEWIS

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need...
CARL LEWIS

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests an...
CARL LEWIS

Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
CARL LEWIS

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
CARL LEWIS

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone el...
CARL LEWIS

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
CARL LEWIS

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
CARL LEWIS

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for wha...
CARL LEWIS

Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created thi...
CARL LEWIS

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. ...
CARL LEWIS

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the...
CARL LEWIS

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself a...
CARL LEWIS

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four differen...
CARL LEWIS

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that...
CARL LEWIS

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
CARL LEWIS

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...
CARL LEWIS

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their politic...
CARL LEWIS

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
CARL LEWIS

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the chal...
CARL LEWIS

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You a...
CARL LEWIS

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone ...
CARL LEWIS

Life is about timing.
CARL LEWIS

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you...
LEWIS BLACK

... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denom...
C.S. LEWIS

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should...
C.S. LEWIS

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is ...
C.S. LEWIS

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
LEWIS CARROLL

I am fond of children--except boys.
LEWIS CARROLL

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ...
LEWIS THOMAS

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD

They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hou...
ALEX LEWIS

We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. The...
ALEX LEWIS

Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w...
ALEX LEWIS

We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS

They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS

Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS

You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis

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