Wilbur Smith Quotes

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Wilbur Smith

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• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Attention
  • Your
  • Capture

• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Crazy
  • Rules
  • Generation

• I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Name
  • Old

• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Death
  • Know

• Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Good
  • Art

• I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Stupid

• I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action
  • Positive
  • Effort

• I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • School
  • Girl
  • Hockey

• I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • World
  • Vulnerability

• God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

  

  David Novak
  • God
  • Live
  • Soul

• A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

  

  Wilbur Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Man