Quote By Lily Smoot Quotes & Sayings

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. — Charles Baudelaire

Appropriate is overrated. — Steven W. Kohlhagen

I can tell you this. That in the absence of perfect information, I choose to believe in the version of events that would occur in the best of all possible worlds. What that version of events is: that's your decision. That's up to you. I can't decide that for you; I wouldn't try. — Dexter Palmer

It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day. — Henry David Thoreau

Poverty is the mother of invention — Sunday Adelaja

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life". — Thomas Merton

I began high school in 1959, B.C. (before cable). — Danny Dunne

You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough? — J.M. Darhower

he would be left alone to scan the arts section of the paper, and read about other people who were doing the kinds of things he didn't even have the expansiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of, — Hanya Yanagihara

Everything I had so far experienced was mere chance ... my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own — Hermann Hesse