Lillian Smith Quotes

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • Try
  • Either

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Always
  • Human
  • Meaning

• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Women
  • Daily
  • More

• It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Journalism

• I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Person

• I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Name

• Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Look
  • Company
  • Management

• Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Political
  • Decide
  • Banking

• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Live
  • Freedom

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Good
  • Conscience
  • Dictates

• The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

  

  Pele
  • Goals

• It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

  

  James Roosevelt
  • Poverty

• I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • Energy
  • Optimistic

• The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

  

  Lillian Smith