Sydney Smith Quotes

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Learn

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Think
  • Friendships

• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Goals

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Look
  • Talking

• Shakespeare is universal.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Universal
  • Shakespeare

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Discipline

• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Boy
  • Shadow

• I'm almost fifty you know! (said when aged 42!)

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Know

• Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Overcoming
  • Expected
  • Accidents

• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Real
  • History
  • Nature

• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

  

  Sydney Smith
  • Nature
  • Talent
  • Succeed