Patti Smith Quotes

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

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• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Desire
  • Talk

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Book
  • Earth
  • Diversity

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Product
  • Agree
  • Software

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• God knows, we don't want prayer.

  

  Oliver North
  • God
  • Want
  • Prayer

• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Night

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Deep

• I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again.'

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

  

  Patti Smith
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