L. Neil Smith Quotes

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

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• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weather

• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Year
  • United States
  • Ship

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Falling

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Last

• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • London
  • Feel Good

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Change

• The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Simple
  • Myself

• When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

  

  Manika
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Gives

• Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Job
  • Football
  • Lovely

• Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• Paula quotes from Point Pleasant

  

  Cameron Richardson

• Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pride

• 'Who can I trust?' Arthur blurted out. 'Those who wish you well,' said the Old One. 'Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn. And that is three questions and all your time.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Trust

• As technology has changed, so have our tools.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Technology
  • Changed
  • Tools

• If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Winning
  • Enemy
  • Victory

• There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Terrible
  • Conditions
  • Unhappiness

• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Voice
  • Horror
  • Melancholy

• My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Life
  • Art
  • Career

• Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

  

  L. Neil Smith