J. L. B. Smith Quotes

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

Greatness exists in all of us.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

Shooting is all about confidence.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

The key to security is public information.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

People die... Beauty fades... Love changes... And you will always be alone.