Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Nobody

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Everyone
  • London
  • Calling

• Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Magic

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Perfect
  • September

• Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Money

• That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  

  Edward Young
  • Peace
  • Moon
  • Archer

• I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Die

• I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Growth

• I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

  

  Lydia M. Child
  • She
  • Book

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • History
  • Christian
  • Bible

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Forgiveness
  • Form
  • Highest

• The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Bible
  • Facts
  • Theories