Colin S. Smith Quotes

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Colin S. Smith

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• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Death
  • Want

• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Together
  • Earth

• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • American
  • Running
  • Space

• I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Reading

• I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Plenty

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Lust

• I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  • Inbreds

• Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Excellence

• But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Law

• Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • God
  • Important
  • Lord