Meredithe Stuart Smith Quotes & Sayings

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. — John Von Neumann

But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.'
'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old. — Suzanne Brockmann

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. — Susan Cain

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. — George Santayana

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist ... — Hugo Pratt

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools. — Steve Stockman

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly. — Herb Kelleher

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances. — John Bolton

If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age? — Bertrand Russell

The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist. There is, then, an I. That I of the infinite is God. — Victor Hugo

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him. — John Wycliffe

They'd been lovers for nearly a year. More and more, she waited, and knew less and less, never sure when she'd see him next, or how they'd spend the time together. Others presumed she was one of his secretaries and Eva knew that even for those women, the rhythms of his schedule - and his moods - were unpredictable. — Phyllis Edgerly Ring