Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.Lewis B. Smedes
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey -
A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
Taylor Lautner
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
Aaron Koblin -
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
Ed Lee -
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty -
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Sally Ride -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson -
It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
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Biology is Engineering
Daniel Dennett -
When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.
Octavia E. Butler -
People follow proven formulas in any business.
Phoebe Cates -
At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.
Katharine Viner -
Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.
Conan O'Brien -
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
Lewis B. Smedes