Margaret Smith Quotes

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Margaret Smith

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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Endless
  • Tire
  • Sequels

• Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • High
  • Smart
  • Youth

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • School
  • Lost

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Voice

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,And Greta woods are green,And you may gather garlands thereWould grace a summer's queen.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • Summer
  • Green

• Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

  

  Christopher deCharms
  • May

• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • May

• If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

  

  Norman Rockwell
  • Picture
  • Well
  • Puppy

• Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Why
  • Science
  • Universe

• Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

  

  Margaret Smith
  • May
  • Humble
  • Nasty