L.J. Smith Quotes

Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

The world was hers for the reading.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

I may not drive in 100 runs a year, but I can prevent 100 runs from scoring against us.

If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.