Alexander Smith Quotes

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Failure

• I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Lies

• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Both

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Remember
  • Trees
  • Autumn

• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Perfection

• I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.

  

  Katie Leclerc

• After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Business
  • Job

• The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Men
  • Family

• We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • Remember
  • Happy