L.J. Smith Quotes
It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.
I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.
People could be built far greater in the Lord and be more wonderfully established if they would move out sometimes and think over the graces of the Lord.
I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.
I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
There's two to wash, two to dry; There's two who argue, two who cry; There's two to kiss, two to hug; and best of all, there's two to love!
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
I didn't know what Guess jeans were. I just shopped at Wal-Mart and Kmart and stuff like that.
I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
