Michael W. Smith Quotes

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

Michael W. Smith

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• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Truth

• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • City
  • Gun

• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • Health care

• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Community
  • Independence
  • Big

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Being
  • Most
  • Naked

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Travel

• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Mysticism

• To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Work
  • Done
  • Know

• Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Fall

• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• 'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

  

  John Strachan

• Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

  

  Ben Shahn

• I think most women have to fight very hard for the opportunities they want, which isn't to say that most artists don't have to do that, male or female, but I'm definitely aware of just how difficult it is to find stories that interest me, particularly.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Women

• Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Love
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Golden hands. It is said that all Poles have them, and that this is how you know your place in life, by the ease of your hands, that whether you are born to make cakes or butcher animals, cuddle children or paint pictures, drive nails or play jazz, your hands know it before you do. Long before birth, the movements are choreographed into the tendons as they're formed.

  

  Brigid Pasulka
  • Life
  • Place
  • Poles

• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  

  Michael W. Smith