Smoaky Quotes & Sayings

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. — Samuel Smiles

The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day. — Margaret Atwood

But we still have to go on living. So we shut our ears, entertain ourselves like crazy, and try to escape from our fears. — Kaori Yuki

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. — Michael Cunningham

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell

Forget the pat, let the dead burry the dead. — Robert Bloch

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. — Robert G. Ingersoll

You gave them everything I had!" the boy said. "Everything I've saved in my entire life!" "Well, what good would it be to you if you had to die?" the alchemist answered. "Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life." But — Paulo Coelho

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom. — Chip Kidd

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. — Tom Rath

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road. — Jean Cocteau

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays) — William Cecil Dampier

These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos. — Wadah Khanfar