Charles Hugh Smith Quotes

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Charles Hugh Smith

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• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • World
  • Politics
  • Start

• Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Honor

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Heaven

• I would hate to be on a plane every day.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Hard
  • Talking

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Name
  • Pen

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

  

  Little Richard
  • God
  • Men
  • Rock

• I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Students
  • Prudence

• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • House
  • Kind
  • Rose

• I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Record
  • Speakers
  • Headphones

• Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Pain
  • Promise

• When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Deep
  • Emotional
  • Feels

• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Feels
  • Humans
  • Information