Alexander Smellie Quotes & Sayings

Some lies are love. — George R R Martin

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence. — Ayn Rand

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere. — Judy Collins

People talk as if grief were just a feeling
as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them. — C.S. Lewis

The cross that my Lord calls me to carry may assume many different shapes. I may have to be content with mundane tasks in a limited area of service, when I may balieve my abilities are suited for much greater work. I may be required to continually cultivate the same field year after year, even though it yields no harvest whatsoever. I may be asked of God to nurture kind and loving thoughts about the very person who has wronged me and to speak gently to him, take his side when others oppose him, and bestow sympathy and comfort to him. I may have to openly testify of my Master before those who do not want to be reminded of Him or His claims. And I may be called to walk through this world with a bright, smiling face while my heart is breaking... "I grow under the load." -Alexander Smellie — Lettie B. Cowman

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. — Junot Diaz

It's one of those things that hits you when you're not even looking for it. It's a moment when you find those words surging through your mind - "I feel so alive right now." There's varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always. — Ian Somerhalder

I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole. — Jane Clayson

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd. — Dan Jones

Experience has taught me choosing the right people to have in your life should be a well thought out, deliberate process. — Carlos Wallace

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this. — Rick Riordan