Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
Quotes to Explore
-
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
-
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
-
I always do my interviews face to face.
-
My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
-
I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
-
For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
-
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
-
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
-
You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
-
A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
-
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
-
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
-
The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
-
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
-
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
-
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
-
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
-
I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
-
An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
-
I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
-
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
-
To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.
-
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
