Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

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• We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Spring
  • Flowers

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Me
  • Walking

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Strong

• I think the way a person dresses is an expression of their personality, and I appreciate a well-tailored suit and the work that goes into it. But when it comes to fashion, on a scale of one to ten, I'm a two.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Personality

• The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • People
  • Real
  • Collaboration

• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that's a prayer. It's so powerful that you will touch people whether it's good or bad.

  

  Arturo O'Farrill
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Life
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