Smilist Smithtown Quotes & Sayings

Chloe didn't have all the answers, either. I knew that now. But she had known something all along that I hadn't: that being ashamed of what you want or how you feel is pointless, and letting anyone else make you feel ashamed is a waste. We all wanted different things, and that was okay. Chloe wanted sex without commitment. Mary wanted to wait until she was ready. And I wasn't sure what I wanted, but I didn't want to make any decisions until I knew. And I was proud of that. — Kody Keplinger

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. — Various Attributed Sources

The role of the Christian apologist is not to re-invent Christianity; it would cease to be Christianity if I did! — Joe Boot

Why is my perception right? If it is wrong, then what is right? — Debasish Mridha

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. — Opal Whiteley

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. — Roma Downey

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane. — Robert Boswell

Out on the street I felt lost wandering around without my child. I felt I ought to wear a pin that said: I have a child in school at the moment. — Laurie Colwin

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. — Anthony Goldbloom

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. — Pete Seeger

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth — Madeleine L'Engle

Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whatever you do, put your inner work first. — Swami Chetanananda