J. L. B. Smith Quotes

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

I know I just need to be me.

I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Taking action births motivation.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

You can't get to second base keeping one foot on first.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird

It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

The faith I was born into formed me.

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.