Slicking Up Smith Quotes & Sayings

No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints. — Jennifer Senior

Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that. — Manti Te'o

In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked. — Pierce Brown

The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones others will remember. Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world. — Ayobami Adebayo

You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. — M. Scott Peck

The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization. — John Trudell

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics. — Osho