R.A. Smith Quotes
The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.
When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.
I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.
I feel a responsibility to make sure that the voices from our community are heard. I do not feel a responsibility to agree with them. No one tells me what to think. I think for me.
When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
