Smelowskia Quotes & Sayings

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly. — Eric Butterworth

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature. — Pope Pius XI

Fear usually looks like anger. — Krista Tippett

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors. — H.L. Mencken

I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going on in theirs. I study 'em. I watch 'em every day. — Rush Limbaugh

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them. — Frank Miller

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders. — Werner Bischof

(For the uninitiated, "ectoplasm" is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins's writings on religion.) — Edward Feser

Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences , in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be; — Swami Vivekananda

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when. — Harriet Martineau

Blessed if you do ... Blessed if you don't ... Blessed no matter what! — Doreen Virtue

There are no ifs and buts in life. If they exist in life, then we are living in coincidence. — Santosh Kalwar

These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them down. I — Amy Ewing

We called ourselves Child, and we played the bars and nightclubs of the late-sixties Shore. We played original music with some covers, and the simple fact that we were so good was all that kept us working. — Bruce Springsteen