L.J. Smith Quotes

The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did?

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

How precious are the souls of men!

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

After you eat Grandma's cookies, everything in life gets better.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

I just can't read music.

I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.

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