J. L. B. Smith Quotes

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.

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

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

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.

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

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

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

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

My best girl is dead.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.