J. L. B. Smith Quotes
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.
I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.
Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.
I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.
What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.
It's always wonderful when you can have safe places where you can dance with the not-so-nice you in a fun way.
I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.
Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman
...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!
I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.