J. L. B. Smith Quotes

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

The Devil's out of fashion.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

I've always been fascinated by weather.

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

The father of confederation is deadlock.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

When one door opens, so does another one.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.