Michael W. Smith Quotes

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

Michael W. Smith

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Pow
  • Equate

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• I was a Girl Scout!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Scout

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Work
  • Job
  • Stop

• I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now asking this prayer to come through you. When you think about music it's got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.

  

  Bobby Hutcherson
  • Prayer
  • Win
  • Musicians

• I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Rivers
  • Disneyland
  • Groves

• It seems like everything is so polarized. You get the caricatures of people, the caricatures of their beliefs. "I hate this kind of person" or "I love this kind of person." But actually, there's a lot of great things about them. There are things to like. There's possibility of change.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Great
  • Hate

• I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

  

  Michael W. Smith
  • Service
  • Prayer