Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird...

Hannah Whitall Smith

• God
• Soul
• Bird
• Aspirations
• Instinct of migration

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• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Time

• We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Choices

• Loss of market begets unemployment. Emphasis has been on short-term profit, to the undernourishment of plans that might generate new product and service that would keep the company alive and provide jobs and more jobs. It is no longer socially acceptable performance to lose market and to dump hourly workers on to the heap of unemployed.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Service

• When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Remember
  • Baby
  • Calm

• He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • King

• My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Dad

• I'm just a working actor.

  

  Clive Owen

• One thing I want people to know before I leave this game is I gave it my all.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Game

• I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Color
  • Grandmother

• I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • Writing

• Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • Freedom
  • Plant

• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

  

  John Naisbitt

• The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

  

  Ken Olsen

• I like a girl with natural beauty.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Girl

• Our life is just a bird, which flies into illuminated window, and then flies away, again, into the darkness

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Bird
  • Window

• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Soul
  • Reading
  • Novel

• At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird...

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Soul
  • Bird