Robert Smith Quotes

They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

Robert Smith The Cure

• May

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Work
  • May
  • Succeed

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Mindset

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• 'Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Money
  • May
  • She

• Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

  

  Frank Rich
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there’s no excuse for that. It’s not something I’ll let happen to me again.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Life

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • World
  • Truth
  • Miracles

• They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • May