Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
How often we say about our earthly friends, I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.Hannah Whitall Smith
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King -
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Irvine Welsh -
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
Rachel Sklar -
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick deWitt
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
Veronica Webb -
I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
Paris Hilton -
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Walter Hill -
The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
Jack Vance -
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Jack McDevitt -
There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
Edward Young -
Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.
Arthur Eddington -
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Benjamin Franklin -
You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
Patti Scialfa -
Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
Jeanne Phillips -
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
Carol Loomis -
I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
Jim Gaffigan -
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik -
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
Saddam Hussein -
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
P. J. O'Rourke -
How often we say about our earthly friends, I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
Hannah Whitall Smith