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
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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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.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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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.
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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.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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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.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
