Ian Smith Quotes

I would be dishonest if I did not state quite clearly that the proposals which were put to us in Pretoria do not represent what in our view would be the best solution to Rhodesia's problems.

Ian Smith

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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Important
  • Modern

• Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Done
  • Going
  • Unemployment

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Government
  • Try
  • Adapt

• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Inside

• You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Song
  • Trouble
  • Resist

• Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • Daily

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• I always felt like I was stuck in between my parents, relaying information back and forth and walking on egg shells, not knowing what was going to trigger something to make them mad and not knowing what to say in front of them.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Parents
  • Walking
  • Mad

• We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Value

• When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law

• But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody!How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery,To love, and to be loved!Let’s just hope that is enough.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Hope
  • Sweet
  • Humility

• Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Family
  • Success
  • Society

• I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • World
  • Eyes

• You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Intelligent

• People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Fighting
  • Doubt
  • Authority

• I would be dishonest if I did not state quite clearly that the proposals which were put to us in Pretoria do not represent what in our view would be the best solution to Rhodesia's problems.

  

  Ian Smith