Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Lewis B. Smedes

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Why
  • Often
  • Flaws

• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Listen
  • Radio
  • Too Much

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Man
  • Nice

• To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Prison

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry, Of the torches wisping in the underground, Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light. There are no shadows in our sun, Day is desire and night is sleep. There are no shadows anywhere. The earth, for us, is flat and bare. There are no shadows.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Light

• I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Reality
  • Comedy

• I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.

  

  Jennifer Johnston
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Friends

• Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • You
  • Just
  • Appreciate

• Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Society
  • Pain
  • Christian