Smokes And Mirrors Quotes & Sayings

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself. — Idina Menzel

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. — Samuel Johnson

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned. — Neal McDonough

You cannot pray them out of hell. — Bill Murray

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. — Karl Jaspers

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action. — Brad Warner

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God ... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. — Orson F. Whitney

Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his heart and in his balls. — J.K. Rowling

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. — Havelock Ellis

Do you and Barley have kits?" she mewed. "Er, no," Ravenpaw answered. — Erin Hunter

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. — Billy Ray Cyrus