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 -
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
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 -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
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 -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
Irwin Winkler -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay -
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon -
'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
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 -
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
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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 -
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
Salma Hayek -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
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 -
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
Zig Ziglar -
'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Rachael Taylor
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As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.
Andrew Yan -
I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
Adrienne Mayor -
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
Carter G. Woodson -
My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
Idina Menzel -
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
Yasunari Kawabata -
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
Lewis B. Smedes