L.J. Smith Quotes
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.
Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.
When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.
The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.
What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable.
I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.
With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.