Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Lewis B. Smedes

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• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Patriotic
  • Hindu
  • Nationalist

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Human

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Lost

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Speak
  • Place
  • Dead

• As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • May
  • Popular

• The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Trying
  • Too Much
  • Efficient

• If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Perfect

• I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Work
  • Fool