Miryam Coppersmith Quotes & Sayings

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. — Andrew Weil

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. — Kenneth H. Cooper

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment. — Ed Crane

There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die. — Randy Pausch

One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program. — Rebecca Eaton

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey. — Oliver Gaspirtz

The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold. — Michael Shaara

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture. — Alan Moore

He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach. — Brenda Novak

When you allow yourself to express both your authentic creativity and leadership talents, you will move in authentic humility and open yourself to the freedom offered by The No-Plan Plan. You will know you have no need to control all the details or waste precious moments fooling yourself with unneeded plans. You'll find faith and trust yourself, the Spirit of your own understanding, and those you lead. — Kevin E. Houchin Esq.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue. — John Steinbeck

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucking psycho bitch and I hate you. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may. — Liz Murray

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. — Noam Chomsky