Liesje Smith Quotes & Sayings

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" — Henri Nouwen

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. — Silvan Shalom

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome. — Carl Sagan

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. — Ingrid Bergman

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's. — O. Henry

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. — Sarah Parcak

In all our academies we attempt far too much ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery. — Bjork

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. — John Berger

Everyone in heaven is in God's kingdom. They are in the 100 percent blue portion of the map. But not everyone in God's kingdom is in heaven. Is it really possible to live in two worlds at the same time? Absolutely! If you are a Christian, you already are! — Van Harden

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires. — Matthew Arnold

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself. — Sun Ra

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators. — Steven J. Lawson

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world. — Minnie Driver