Sydney Smith Quotes

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

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• Disgrace
• Inconvenient

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• When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Military

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • World
  • Evil
  • Dark

• Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Life

• No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

  

  James Carville
  • Party
  • Fighting

• People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.

  

  Dan Barker
  • People
  • Different
  • Belief

• In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Poverty
  • United States
  • Discrimination

• I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

  

  Sydney Smith
  • Poverty
  • Disgrace
  • Inconvenient