L.J. Smith Quotes

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

There is no animal lazier than a cat.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.